Quotes from Shane Hipps

Information is strength without coordination. We become a danger mostly to ourselves when we have it. Understanding is the ability to coordinate that raw information in meaningful ways. Understanding creates a certain enthusiasm. We can direct our knowledge toward potentially useful ends--but we may also be a danger to others. Wisdom, however, is knowing how, when, and why we use our understanding; wisdom is settling into our understanding without being too enamored by it.

Truth without love, isn't.

As we grow, the question we learn to ask moves from What is right or wrong? to What does Love require?

The lesson here is an important one. Love has no opposite. No force in the universe rivals it.

The possibility of eternal life begins the day we are born, not the day we die.

Jesus functions like a mirror. I have a face, but I can't see it without a mirror. The mirror doesn't give me a face; it only shows me what I already have. Jesus describes what he does as showing us what we already have. He reveals rather than creates.

An indication you have shed restraint too soon is when you lose all discipline. Or if you feel compelled to force everyone to shed their swaddles as you have done. These are forms of squirming and squawking, and they are indications that you are rebelling rather than growing.

If we are to access the Living Water Jesus promised, ultimately Love must become the only thing that governs behavior, not fear.

Our joy will share the fate of the thing we bind it to.

If a twenty-year-old is frightened of stoves in the same way he was as a two-year-old, we have a problem.

We might say blessed are the flexible for they won't get bent out of shape.

Just because Christianity claims Jesus as its own does not mean that Jesus claims Christianity as his own. Christ does not bind himself to a religion, any more than wind binds itself to a sail.

written words stimulate and liberate the imagination. Images, on the other hand, usually captivate the imagination.

Reading.... is brain protein - it demands concentration and sustained neural energy.

image culture dramatically shapes the way we think. It also determines what we think about. Images are not well suited to articulate arguments, categories, or abstractions. They are far better suited for presenting impressions and experiences.

Morse's invention dramatically altered the way we relate to information by breaking, for the first time,, the historic connection between communication and transportation.

The radio returned our culture to the experience of the tribal campfire with its shared stories, songs, and banter.

You'll know you've shed your own old beliefs at the right time when you are still able to appreciate them.