Quote from Blood Brothers: the Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian working for Peace in Israel
by Elias Chacour
[Telling family stories] "was Father's most effective way of teaching us two things. First, we should love and respect our Galilean soil, for our people had long struggled to survive here. We were rooted like the poppies and wild, blue irises that thrust up among the rocks. Our family had tilled this land, had worshiped here longer than anyone could remember. And second, our lives were bound together with the other people who inhabited Palestine--the Jews. We had suffered together under the Romans, Persians, Crusaders and Turks, and had learned to share the simple elements of human existence--faith, reverence for life, hospitality. These, Father said, were the things that caused people to live happily together." p. 38
Quote from The Full Cup podcast by Craig Berthold (you can find it on Apple play or Spotify)
"The God who loves in freedom is not afraid, and therefore can risk vulnerability
absorb the full horror of another's pain without self-destruction. God has the power to be compassionate without fear; human beings now as in the time of Jesus tend to think of power as refusal to risk compassion. But God's power looks not like imperious Caesar, but like Jesus on the cross."
Quote by William C. Placher Narratives of a Vulnerable God
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