Blacksburg Presbyterian Church

Stewardship Focus 2021 “Optimism is a passive virtue, hope is an active one. It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it does need courage to hope.”   —Jonathan Sacks

How very good and pleasant it is when we live in unity. We gather here together with our hearts and voices raised to God, who is the center of our unity and praise!

Peace & Global Missions Focus 2021 “What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action .” —Meister Eckhart

Peace & Global Missions Focus 2021 “This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world: seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.” -- Mother Theresa

Season of Creation 2021: “Physical matter is music solidified” - Pythagorus

Season of Creation 2021:   We breathe in what the trees breathe out, and they breathe in what we breathe out. Forever overwhelmed by the beauty of God's design . . . 

Season of Creation 2021:   “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”   ― A.A. Milne

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it.”   —Terry Pratchett

“The raven is a creature of need, of want, of desire. It is voracious. And God feeds it, takes care of its needs, so Jesus would have us believe.”   —Debbie Blue, Consider the Birds

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it.”   —Terry Pratchett

“God’s work in the world doesn’t work like a business—like commerce or trade: give up this and you’ll get that—blood for love, the death of one thing so that something else can live. It’s a lot more creative than that. It’s not tit for tat. It’s grace upon mind-blowing grace.”   —Debbie Blue, Consider the Birds

“To be alive involves a lot: suffering and taste buds and sweetness and muck. The spirit of God is not apart from this.” — Debbie Blue, Consider the Birds

"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread."  — James Baldwin

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." — Willa Cather

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves fro...

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."   — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”   ― Maya Angelou

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.   — Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī

“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.” -- Unknown

Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God!   Be still, and know that I am... Be still, and know... Be still... Be...

If peace means this, I don’t want peace: If peace means accepting second class citizenship I don’t want it If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don’t want it If peace means being complacently adjusted to a deadening status quo, I don’t want peace. If peace means a willingness to be exploited economically, dominated politically, humiliated and segregated, I don...

“We’ve turned faith into a right to certitude when, in fact, this Trinitarian mystery is whispering quite the opposite: we have to live in exquisite, terrible humility before reality.” —Richard Rohr