The further a society drifts from Truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
04287 – Drifting from Truth
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04284 – Words, Actions, Silence, Bad, Good
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. from Letters from a Birmingham Jail
04199 – True of Our Churches?
Dark and terrible as is this picture, I hold it to be strictly true of the overwhelming mass of professed Christians in America. They strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Could anything be more true of our churches? They would be shocked at the proposition of...
03920 – Love will Rise!
There is so much heartbreak, devastation, and inhumanity, that when you see something inspiring something beautiful, you lean into it. Hate always seems to be winning, but we can't let that happen. Love will rise. We need to give love its due. Raise it up. Shout it...
03828 – Hate & Truth
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.-----------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: No one is more hated than the one who speaks the truth.
03558 – Don’t Belittle My Soul!
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.______________________Gender-neutral paraphrase: I shall allow no person to belittle my soul by making me hate that person.
03495 – What Nonviolence Means
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.-------------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive paraphrase: Nonviolence means...
03476 – God Became Like Us
We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of how to destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God...
03342 – We’re 100% Human
Nobody is born Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Atheist, Republican, Democrat. People are born human and are conditioned by narratives and ideologies of race, religion, culture, politics, nationality, and society. This is not necessarily a...
03192 – Now We are Different
We used to hate and destroy one another, and we refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people, and we pray for our enemies.