“You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you won’t serve the people.” -Cornel West
” I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness” -Mother Teresa
“When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter–they are all hell on earth. Jesus’ desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What’s disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.” -Rob Bell
“We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the Kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy, too. But I guess that’s why God invented highlighers, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.”
-Rich Mullins
“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.” -Shane Claiborne
” Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.” -Dorothy Day
“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.” -Donald Miller
“It surprises people that there’s actually a very large number of slaves in the world today—our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we’re not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we’re talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.” -Kevin Bales
“In some sense, we are all hypocrites in transition.” -Erwin McManus
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time” -Steven Wright
“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.” -C.S. Lewis
“On the Sabbath we live as if all of our work is done- even if it isn’t.” -Rob Bell
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.” -George Bernard Shaw
