{"id":6981,"date":"2019-05-27T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T02:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2019-05-27T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T02:57:11","slug":"erasing-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6981","title":{"rendered":"Erasing Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Boyle-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Boyle-25.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Boyle-25-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Boyle-25-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>There are two hundred references in Scripture that ask us to take special care of the poor. I&#8217;m guessing, then, it&#8217;s important. It is this preferential care and love for the poor that sets the stage for the original program. It doesn&#8217;t draw lines &#8212; it erases them. It rises above the polarizing temperature of our times. It doesn&#8217;t shake its finger at anybody but instead helps us all put our finger on it. We could ask ourselves, I suppose, if God is conservative or liberal, but I think that&#8217;s the wrong question. Instead we should ask: Is God expansive or tiny? Is God spacious or shallow? Is God inclusive or exclusive? What are the chances that God holds the same tiny point of view as I do? Well, zero.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory Boyle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/barking_to_the_choir.html\"><em>Barking to the Choir<\/em><\/a>, p. 164<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Wildeshausen, Germany, May 16, 2004<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two hundred references in Scripture that ask us to take special care of the poor. I&#8217;m guessing, then, it&#8217;s important. It is this preferential care and love for the poor that sets the stage for the original program. It doesn&#8217;t draw lines &#8212; it erases them. It rises above the polarizing temperature of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8010,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}