Peter Rollins Quotes

What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong

If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

To believe is human to doubt is divine.

Your job is to take notes, my job is to make that impossible.

Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.

This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,