There is nothing more hateful to the tyrant than the service of Christ and the right Christian life, for it is precisely his opposite, and one opposite seeks to drive out the other.
— Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), Reformprediger
Topics: Ethical Questions, Justice & Commitment
Occasions: For Reflection
All quotes by Girolamo Savonarola (3)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God.
C.S. Lewis
The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Mother Teresa
My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There are no ordinary people; every neighbor carries eternal significance.
C.S. Lewis
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Desmond Tutu