Best 41 quotes of J. Earp on MyQuotes

As long as the Atonement remains a legal, juridical, or psychological matter, it will remain in the realm of the aesthetic, Love at First Hand, “it’s all about me.” The atonement must be a drama whose characters are loftier than a jealous deity, subtler than a cunning adversary, holier than a selfless hero, and nobler than a cowering humanity.

At its lowest and most common level the “God has a plan” folks are those who settle for the least comforting of cold comforts. Why did little Johnny get run over by the garbage truck in the alley? Because God has a plan. There. Feel better now? And at its highest and most rarified level a plateful of blood-rare metaphysics provides a chewy, fragrant, vitamin-packed repast for the mind/heart willing to dig in and feast.

Christianity is the point of view from which the view is the point.

Do you have a fulcrum large enough, and a lever long enough to shift human nature?

Education consists primarily in perfecting the art/science of connecting apparently disparate dots.

Entertain every idea that entertains you. To be entertained by an idea is to examine it in the context of your own engaged presence.

Even though it is more blessed to give than to receive, sometimes you need to be the object of someone else’s compassion.

Finding yourself takes concentrating the Mind and freeing the Soul. Finding what is takes freeing the Mind and concentrating the Soul.

First love is the erotic at its best and most focused – the adolescent introduction to the complex world of adulthood.

First loves are nature’s way of providing an acceptable reason to lose your virginity.

Growth requires that you gain mastery over the tyranny of your own memory.

If you are growing at all, you are never in your comfort zone.

If you never lose sight of the shore, you’re not on a voyage of discovery. You’re on a day cruise.

In Hebrew teaching Ruach is the part of the flame closest to the wick. Nephesh is the part of the wick closest to the flame.

In many ways you are who you present yourself to be. People will perceive you in the way you invite them to perceive you.

In modern culture the Gospel has been superseded by forms of narcissistic therapy and faux altruism.

Intuition is the organ that senses when eternity breaks into time – when gold shines through the mud.

Love is the first and most devious deceiver, the most seductive delusion.

Mind your metaphors: A painful wound leaves a scar forever, but the bitter is at last washed away by the sweet.

Most of us outgrow the religion of our childhood just like we outgrow children’s clothing. Both experiences are traumatic. Both experiences are necessary.

New perspectives and conquered fears are two of the extra-added attractions of learning.

Nobody deserves misery, but sometimes it's just your turn.

Process the loss.” I so dislike this term. Chop, dice, slice, Julienne, process your feelings, drives, memories, losses – as though at the end of the process out pops a shiny psyche as clean and crisp as a 5-star entrée.

Round a corner, turn a page, get born again, leave one class for the next, trade-in one school for another; take one more step toward maturity. You won’t miss your past all that much.

The acorn does not know that it will become a sapling. The sapling does not remember when it was an acorn, and only dimly senses that it will become a mighty oak. The oak recalls fondly when it was a sapling, loves being a mighty oak, and joyfully creates new acorns.

The best wisdom looks, sounds, and feels like poetry. Wisdom is elegant.

The deepest learning directs your thinking. The deepest thinking directs your learning.

The irony of “techno-connections” is that you choose personal isolation and crave social connection through the isolating instrument.

The Moment is an inch long and a mile deep.

The seed of self-esteem so eagerly planted in youngsters in school will eventually bloom and ripen into the genuine fruit of humility.

The truth in every myth is the pearl in every oyster.

The universal need for acceptance manifests as “joining the herd.

Treat what you love with gentle kindness and appreciative respect.

We create our own version of God through the inevitable evolution of cultures. We all begin in Fire.

We speak two different dialects of the same language.

We steer the boat, we don’t alter the river.

What if Loves are analogous to math? First, arithmetic, then geometry and algebra, then trig and quadratics…

When we lose our attachment to symbols and images we are freed from the tyranny of memory.

Where you came from is merely stage one of the rocket that is your life. But stage one is absolutely necessary if you are going to fling a red Tesla out toward Mars.

Your hormones are smarter than you are.

Your life/destiny unfolds over time; the “plan” emerges out of the mist.