Quotes

“The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
– Howard Zinn

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege. – bell hooks

“The opposite of poverty is not property but the opposite of both poverty and property is community.” – Jorgen Moltmann via Rev. Ron Robinson

“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.” – Lenny Bruce

I did not know what God is like until a friendly word came to me in an hour of need—And it was God I heard. I did not know what God is like until I heard love’s feet on errands of God’s mercy go up and down life’s street. I did not know what God is like until I felt a hand clasp mine and lift me when alone I had no strength to stand. I think I know what God is like for I have seen the face of God’s son looking at me from all the human race. ~James Dillet Freeman

If a society is a just society, if it is one which places a premium on social justice and human rights, then racism and intolerance cannot survive.

People deserve to be blessed simply because they are people, not just so we can “witness” to them. Reggie McNeal

But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opposers into friends. The type of love that I stress here is not eros, a sort of esthetic or romantic love; not philia, a sort of reciprocal love between personal friends; but it is agape which is understanding goodwill for all men. It is an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return. It is the love of God working in the lives of men. This is the love that may well be the salvation of our civilization.
from The Role of the Church in Facing the Nation’s Chief Moral Dilemma, 1957 MLK