To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.--------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: To show compassion for...
Imagine taking the few Bible verses on women being silent in church and human sexuality as literal divine commands from God for all society, but minimizing the +2,000 verses calling for a generous economy and redistribution of wealth for the sake of the poor to a...
In the home, at church, in the academy and the marketplace, and in society generally, every Christian has a calling to speak God’s truth. from The Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth
If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.
ContinueMy wish for youIs that you continueContinueTo be who and how you areTo astonish a mean worldWith your acts of kindnessContinueTo allow humor to lighten the burdenOf your tender heartContinueIn a society dark with crueltyTo let the people hear the grandeurOf...
Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it. from Moral Man And Immoral...
White Christianity suffers from a bad case of Disney Princess Theology. As each individual reads Scripture they see themselves as the princess in every story. They are Esther, never Xerxes or Haman. They are Peter, never Judas. They are the woman anointing Jesus,...
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit, and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to...
The reality of human society and acquisitiveness is such that the poor will always tend to be exploited; a society built on the competitive principle means that in order for there to be a winner, there must be a greater number of losers. In such a society, where law...
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.