Category: Quotes
Stumbled on this little jewel today…
“Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman!” – Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” (1851)
“Human beings never do evil so completely and so joyously as when they do it from a religious motivation.” – Blaise Pascal
“If they are to be the people of God, Christians have to first become a people — that is, a network of living communities working out their understandings, planning their courses of action, and organizing themselves for action.”
Leonardo Boff & Clodovis Boff, translated by Paul Burns, Introducing Liberation Theology (1987)
“The great events of this world are not battles and elections and earthquakes and thunderbolts. The great events are babies, for each child comes with a message that God is not yet discouraged with humanity, but is still expecting goodwill to become incarnate in each human life.” – Marian Wright Edelman, “Standing Up for Children” (2003)
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