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    C. S. Lewis
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    He goes 'to prepare a place for us.’ This presumably means that He is about to create that whole new Nature which will provide the environment or conditions for His glorified humanity and, in Him,...

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    N. T. Wright
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    God is not going to abolish the universe of space, time and matter; he is going to renew it, to restore it, to fill it with new joy and purpose and delight, to take from it all that has corrupted it. ...

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    N. T. Wright
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    Evil is the force of anti-creation, anti-life, the force which opposes and seeks to deface and destroy God’s good world of space, time and matter, and above all God’s image-bearing human creatures.

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    Russ Ramsey
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    Matthew 4:12-17, John 1:45-46, Matthew 13:31-32, Zechariah 4:10, Acts 1:8
    In terms of time and space, the scale of Jesus’s earthly ministry was small—three years in a parcel of land where the corners of the world came together.

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    Chinese Proverb
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    Life just gives you time and space—it’s up to you to fill it.

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    Vicki K. Black
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    Isaiah 7:14, Micah 5:2, Genesis 1:1, Psalm 8:3-4, Colossians 1:15-16
    “In historical time, Christmas happened over two thousand years ago in Bethlehem; in theological time, Christmas happens now, in the mystery of God choosing to dwell within humankind, a mystery that t...

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    T. F. Torrance
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    While the incarnation does not mean that God is limited by space and time, he asserts the reality of space and time for God in the actuality of His relations with us, and at the same time binds us to ...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Galatians 2:20, 2 Corinthians 4:10-11, Matthew 26:26-28, Hebrews 4:15, Romans 12:1
    The Christian faith always has to do with flesh and blood, time and space, more specifically with your flesh and blood and mine, with the time and space that day by day we are all of us involved with,...

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    Joan Chittister
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    Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, Psalm 39:4-5, Job 14:5, James 4:13-15 , Matthew 6:27, Psalm 90:12
    Life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us—and are not ours at the same time.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

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    Edward Casey
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    In the past three centuries in the West—the period of “modernity”—place has come to be not only neglected but actively suppressed. Owing to the triumph of the natural and social sciences in this same ...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and for him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that he i...

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    Eugene H. Peterson
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    Christian worship is the sanctification of time and space.

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    Ruth Haley Barton
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    Exodus 18:13–24, 1 Kings 19:4–9, Isaiah 30:15, Mark 6:30–32, Romans 12:1–2, Psalm 139:23–24
    On retreat we stop avoiding the pain of the disconnect between our deepest desires and the way we are actually living. We have time and space to reflect on our life rhythms to see if they are really w...

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    Ruth Haley Barton
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    On retreat we stop avoiding the pain of the disconnect between our deepest desires and the way we are actually living. We have time and space to reflect on our life rhythms to see if they are really w...

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    Anthony J. Kelly
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    2 Corinthians 5:16, Acts 1:11, Acts 1:5
    Far from being a largely irrelevant item in terms of Christian experience, the ascension is that facet of the Christian mystery that is most near to those living the life of faith. St. Paul, in emphas...

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    Anthony J. Kelly
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    The crucified Jesus rises from the tomb, and though transformed, appears to his disciples and is identified by them as the one who lived among them. He is then taken up into the luminous cloud of God’...

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    N. T. Wright
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    We have been so soaked in the individualism of modern Western culture that we feel threatened by the idea of our primary identity being that of the family we belong to-especially when the family in qu...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, which is uncreated, eternal, came into Nature, into human nature,...

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    Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
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    The truth, however, is that when we say yes to invitations that keep us compulsively busy, we may be exhibiting a lazy ambivalence that actually keeps us distracted from the invitations that matter mo...

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    Christopher Dawson
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    Any religious movement which adopts a purely critical and negative attitude to culture is therefore a force of destruction and disintegration which mobilizes against it the healthiest and most constru...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Prayers are not always…“granted.” This is not because prayer is a weaker kind of causality, but because it is a stronger kind. When it “works” at all it works unlimited by space and time. That is why ...

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    Walter Brueggemann
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    In the Old Testament there is no timeless space, but there is also no spaceless time. There is rather storied place, that is a place which has meaning because of the history lodged there. There are st...

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    Jay Y. Kim
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    The church is fundamentally designed and intended for this work—to create spaces and opportunities for people from all walks of life to experience true human flourishing, in real time and real space. ...

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    Joseph Ratzinger
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    Cosmic time, which is determined by the sun, becomes a representation of human time and of historical time, which moves toward union of God and the world, of history and the universe, of matter and sp...

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    J. Hooker
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    Entering a place that is new to us, or seeing a familiar place anew, we move from part to part, simultaneously perceiving individual persons and things and discovering their relationships, so that, wi...

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    Henri Nouwen, with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird
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    A spiritual discipline or practice is a way of creating some open and free space in which God can move an speak. For example, the discipline of solitude helps us spend time with God alone and so becom...

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    Ted Loder
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    I am so thankful to be alive—breathing, moving, sensing, wide-eyed, cock-eared alive—in this mysterious instant, at this luminous time, on this nurturing earth, this blue pearl of great price whirling...

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    David G. Benner
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    Presence requires inner space, and talk about presence requires the same.

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    Henri Nouwen, with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird
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    Spiritual guidance affirms the basic quest for meaning. It calls for the creation of space in which the validity of the questions does not depend on the availability of answers but on the questions...
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