If you're in trouble or hurt or need, go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help--the only ones. from The Grapes of Wrath
03437 – Go to Poor People
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03436 – Accountability & Trust
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. --------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: A body of people holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
03419 – Knowing the Joy of God
People who have come to know the joy of God do not deny the darkness, but they choose not to live in it.
03377 – Excluding God’s Creatures
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.---------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive paraphrase: If you have people who will...
03372 – Happy/Unhappy People
The happiest people I know are evaluating and improving themselves. The unhappy people are usually evaluating and judging others.
03362 – Faith & Love
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
03330 – Opinion + Confession
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
03241 – Move That Ladder!
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
03137 – Who is “Other”??
Sometimes for humans no one is more "other" than the person who claims to worship the same God we worship but differently, and the Samaritans were "those people."
03012 – Control vs. Redemption
When our theology and politics as Christians is completely preoccupied with how other people might be sinning rather than how our own sin contributes to the problems of our world, that is when we know our religion is about control rather than redemption.