Quotes on Justice & Commitment
Christian quotes on Justice & Commitment — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish; but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
O Lord, make me an instrument of your peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light, and where there is sadness, joy.
Francis of Assisi
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Prayers do not change the world. But prayers change people, and people change the world.
Albert Schweitzer
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
Desmond Tutu
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
The ground is level at the foot of the cross.
Billy Graham
And so I have discovered that it does not depend on our forgiveness or goodness whether this world is healed, but on his. When he tells us to love our enemies, he gives us, along with the command, the love to do it.
Corrie ten Boom
Folding hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
Karl Barth
There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.
Philip Yancey
Outside of the gospel, we must develop a righteousness, and offer it to God, and say (hopefully and anxiously): Accept me. The gospel says that God has developed a perfect righteousness, and he offers it to us, and by it we are accepted.
Tim Keller
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We will have to repent in this generation not so much for the deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Desmond Tutu
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.
Hélder Câmara
I felt my feet were praying.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.
Sophie Scholl
Our being Christians today will consist of only two things: prayer and doing justice among people. All thinking, speaking and organizing in the things of Christianity must be born anew out of this prayer and this action.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The world is overcome not by destruction, but by forgiveness.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No peace without justice, no justice without forgiveness.
Pope John Paul II
The just man in his defeat is stronger than the evil man in his triumph.
Martin Luther King Jr.
As long as women still weep as they do now, I will fight; as long as children still hunger as they do now, I will fight; as long as a single soul is still in darkness without the light of God, I will fight. I will fight to the end.
William Booth
The bread that is spoiling in your house belongs to the hungry. The shoes that are mildewing under your bed belong to those who have none. The clothes stored away in your trunk belong to those who are naked.
Basil of Caesarea
The church remained silent when it should have cried out.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Live simply so others may simply live.
Mother Teresa
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But where did I get this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he knows what a straight line is.
C.S. Lewis
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Desmond Tutu
Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The racial problems will never be solved ultimately until the oppressed people are able to love their enemies.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Of course we want fundamental changes. If that is revolution, then I am a revolutionary. Even Jesus was that; he wanted goodness, justice, and forgiveness.
Desmond Tutu
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
Alan Paton
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
People quoted here
Martin Luther King Jr., Francis of Assisi, Albert Schweitzer, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Desmond Tutu, William Shakespeare, Billy Graham, Corrie ten Boom, Karl Barth, Philip Yancey, Tim Keller, Hélder Câmara
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