Category: Quotes

 

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. ~ Nelson Mandela

 

 

“You can read the Bible literally or you can take it seriously, but you can’t do both.” ~ Bill Tammeus, Columnist in the National Catholic Reporter

 

 

“Our country is not ‘under danger from immigrants.’ It is under danger from a politician who confuses the presidency with the monarchy.” ~ Sr. Joan Chittister, author and spiritual writer

 

 

“The world is watching as we abandon our commitments to American values.” ~ Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago

 

If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

“The reason why Trump was able to attain power is not because he had better ideas, made better arguments, had greater organizational capacity, or even spent more money. The reason he was able to win was because those charged with opposing him offered no hope, but the status quo, in a country where inequality between rich and poor and black and white is growing.”

~ Gary Younge in The Nation

I want to start a new page for collecting the Notable Quotes that I acquire through the year but until I can get the permanent page set up, let me start here with a quote from Abram Kielsmeier-Jones in Sojourners:

The prophetic task of all believers is not just to react to reality, but to reframe it in the light of a grander vision of the future.