Robert McAfee Brown Born : May 28, 1920 Died : September 4, 2001 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Robert McAfee Brown How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. Robert McAfee Brown community giving people Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are. Robert McAfee Brown who-we-are determine True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice. Robert McAfee Brown patriotism light justice To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake. Robert McAfee Brown thought-provoking matter pay The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. Robert McAfee Brown glasses church house Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well. Robert McAfee Brown latin giving art Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else. Robert McAfee Brown land prayer moving Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. Robert McAfee Brown today way world ideas
