Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Human One. Talk about an upside-down universe! I’m not happy when people hate me—and some people do hate me. Jesus is saying that we have to...
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
I’ve never known a person to change his/her mind on social media, or in real life, when someone yelled at them or put them down, regardless of the subject. On the other hand, I have been personally changed by people who I know care about me, listen to me, and love me....
No one in this world is pure and perfect. If you avoid people for their mistakes, you will be alone in this world.
My mission as a Christian is not "to convert the heathen" as we once asserted; it is rather to assist in the task of helping all people "to live fully, to love wastefully, and to be all that they are capable of being."
Let the rain come and wash awaythe ancient grudges, the bitter hatredsheld, and nurtured over generations.Let the rain wash away the memoryof the hurt, the neglect.Then let the sun come out andfill the sky with rainbows.Let the warmth of the sun heal uswherever we are...
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry...