Top 7 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

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

People, Giving, Community

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

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

Robert McAfee Brown (1983). “Elie Wiesel, messenger to all humanity”

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

Light, Justice, Patriotism

Robert McAfee Brown (1984). “Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes”, p.159, Westminster John Knox Press

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

Prayer, Moving, Land