Quotes 17

"Faith today is treated as something that only should make us different, not that actually does or can make us different. In reality we vainly struggle against the evils of this world, waiting to die and go to heaven. Somehow we've gotten the idea that the essence of faith is entirely a mental and inward thing."-Dallas Willard

"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him."-Sir Francis Bacon

"In the end, we will remember not the word of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Live as if Christ died yesterday, rose this morning and is coming back tomorrow."-Martin Luther

"And He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness."-2 Corinthians 12:9 (NKJV)

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied. . .but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing."-John Berger

"Facts are stubborn things."-John Adams

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."-Flannery O'Connor

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."-Benjamin Disraeli

"He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught."-Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."-MLKJ

"'He defended the cause of the poor and the needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?' declares the Lord."-Jeremiah 22:16

"Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything."-Bob Pierce

"'Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it.'

'Well, why don't you ask him?'

'Because I'm afraid He would ask me the same question.'"-Anonymous

"A church that lives within its four walls is no church at all."-Morgan Chilulu

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."-MLKJ, "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

"But then my cynicism got another helping hand--a tiny virus called AIDS. And the religious community, in large part, missed it. The ones who didn't miss it could see it only as a divine retribution for bad behavior. Even on children."-Bono, "On the Move"