[Propertalk] Sermon quotes on the Gospel for October 18: Part 3

[Joe Parrish]

My own tendency is to demonize James and John, but Jesus treats their ambition as worthy of redemption. I am reminded of how earlier in this chapter a rich man bragged that he had kept all the commandments. Then Jesus, "looking at him, loved him," we are told (Mark 10:21).

http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=3457

Stephen B. Chapman, 2006
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Many people think of religion as a way of avoiding or getting around reality, and of the Bible as a kind of holy religious book. Both assumptions are very far from the truth. One of the reasons why the story of Jesus is so powerful is that it is so human and so simple. It is a story of human venality and ambition, of trial and error, weakness and strength. It is a story with which most of us can identify.

http://www.bible.claret.org/liturgy/daily/sundays_pierse/cycleB/B_29thSunOT.htm

Gerry Pierse
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Think of waiters or waitresses in our own culture. A good waiter or waitress must be part entertainer (making good "small talk") when the order is placed, timely provider of food and drink, and invisible guide, ever to provide assistance, yet at a discrete distance. They are to leave us alone when we desire privacy, but approach immediately when we need help. They are to serve us and, in doing so, they lead us through the meal.

http://www.word-sunday.com/Files/b/29-b/A-29-b.html

Larry Broding
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Jesus remains a scandal to those who aspire to greatness, a Savior to those who know him as one who was also "subject to weakness" (Heb. 5:2) and has become our High Priest, "the source of our eternal salvation for all who obey him" (Heb. 5:9). If it's greatness we all might wish for, the path is still downward (and upward at the same time), as Jesus has made ever so clear by his life and death, and even in his resurrection, still pointing to what is below: "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. I was naked and you gave me clothing. I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me...'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me'" (Matt. 25:35-36, 40). 

http://www.crossings.org/theology/2009/theolo751.shtml

Ron Starenko, 2009
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In fact, when Jesus came into his kingdom, it was to be a criminal on his right and another on his left 

http://www.wellsprings.org.uk/weekly_wellsprings/year_b/sunday_29.htm

Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner
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Most of us would give up Easter if we could also do without Good Friday.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n27_v111/ai_15805793/

Martin B. Copenhaver, 1994
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The other day I was talking to a man who has become a close friend of a Hungarian government official. "Have you ever met a real-live, lifetime, 100 per cent atheist?" he asked. <>"There's not a damn bit of difference between her and me. She isn't somebody strange; she is just like your average, everyday, commonsense American. Like me, she never wonders, 'What does God want me to do now?' Like me, she doesn't lose sleep expecting God to come down and do something about the world. She just goes about her life, deciding on the basis of what's in her own best interest, what's practical, what's possible. That little 'godless communist' could pass for you or me anytime."

http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=996

William Willimon, 1986
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The goal of the teacher must be to enable the pupil to become independent of the teacher. The pupil must eventually be able to learn without the teacher. 

http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=316

Diogenes Allen, 1998
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