William Stringfellow: Quotes about life

William Stringfellow was American theologian. Explore interesting quotes on life.

William Stringfellow: 22 quotes 0 likes

“The Christian as revolutionary is constantly welcoming the gift of human life, for himself and for all men, by exposing, opposing, and overturning all that betrays, entraps, or attempts to kill human life.”

William Stringfellow

Source: William Stringfellow: Essential Writings (2013), "Jesus the Criminal" (1969), p. 64

Life , Men

“If a congregation somewhere comes to life as Jerusalem at some hour, that carries no necessary implications for either the past or the future of that congregation. The Jerusalem occurrence is sufficient unto itself. There is—then and there—a transfiguration in which the momentary coincides with the eternal, the innocuous becomes momentous and the great is recognized as trivial, the end of history is revealed as the fulfillment of life here and now, and the whole of creation is beheld as sanctified.”

William Stringfellow

Source: An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), pp. 60-61

Past , Future , Life , History

“While Babylon represents the principality in bondage to death in time—and time is actually a form of that bondage—Jerusalem means the emancipation of human life in a society from the rule of death and breaks through time, transcends time, anticipates within time the abolition of time.”

William Stringfellow

Source: An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), p. 60

Life , Death , Time

“In this story, there is no other place actually known to human beings, except this world as it is—the place where life is at once being lived; there are no other places for which to search or yearn or hope—no utopia, no paradise, no otherworldly afterlife.”

William Stringfellow

Source: An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), p. 48

World , Life , Hope , Search