Twelve Transportable Tweets for Pentecost

Pentecost is also Graduation Sunday at Grace this year. These twelve tweets are organized as couplets and were shared in my Pentecost 2011 homily as quotes students or any of us can carry with us (“Carry-A-Quote”) as we go forth to live life and to serve God in the power of the Spirit.

Many, many others could have been selected drawing upon other significant voices. Readers are invited to share other favorite quotes that have been spiritually helpful along the way.

Being Alive

“The glory of God is a human being fully alive.” – St. Irenaeus

“I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly.” – Jesus

Doubt and Faith

“The opposite of faith is not doubt: It's certainty.” – Anne Lamott

“Christian belief is about knowing who and what to trust.”  – Rowan Williams

Relatedness and Unity

“A person is a person through other persons.” – Desmond Tutu

“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”  – Paul

Love

“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” – Jesus

“To love someone is to take non-possessive delight in their particularity.” – James Loder

Justice

“ . . .  what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” – The Prophet Micah

“. . . the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” – Martin Luther King

Vocation and Gifts

"The place God calls you to is where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." – Frederick Buechner

“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit . . . To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.” – Paul