WIST Quotations

Atkinson, Gordon -- Real Live Preacher

Dave — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:45:53 +0000

It really doesn’t matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Gordon Atkinson (contemp.) American minister, writer [a.k.a. Real Live Preacher]
Real Live Preacher

Atkinson, Gordon -- Real Live Preacher, “In the Meantime I Tell Stories” (29 April 2004)

Dave — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:11:42 +0000

Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.

Gordon Atkinson (contemp.) American minister, writer [a.k.a. Real Live Preacher]
Real Live Preacher, “In the Meantime I Tell Stories” (29 April 2004)

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Atkinson, Gordon -- The Christian Century, “The Gospel According to Anna” (25 Jan. 2005)

Dave — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:53:59 +0000

There is no such thing as The Gospel in the same way that there is no such thing as a circle. The Good News, like the perfect circle, lies forever beyond us and out of our reach. What we have is the gospel according to. Nothing more and nothing less.

Gordon Atkinson (contemp.) American minister, writer [a.k.a. Real Live Preacher]
The Christian Century, “The Gospel According to Anna” (25 Jan. 2005)

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