Quotes by Jim Wallis

Jim Wallis

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can’t get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

Iraq

Reform

Years

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn’t say, “Blessed are the peace-lovers.” He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

Jesus

Life

Peace

At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.

Children

Mother

Pain

But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it’s an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours.

Heart

Issues

Pay The Price

But what does it mean to be on God’s side? I believe it starts with focusing on the common good – not just in politics, but in all the decisions we make in our personal, family, vocational, financial, communal, and, public lives. That old but always new ethic simply says we must care for more than just ourselves or our own group. We must care for our neighbor as well, and for the health of the life we share with one another. It echoes a very basic tenet of Christianity and other faiths – love your neighbor as yourself – still the most transformational ethic in history.

Believe

Love You

Mean

But when one believes that you’ve been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Believe

Humility

Reflection

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil – that’s very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

Evil

Roles

World

Faith can cut in so many ways. If you’re penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it’s designed to certify our righteousness – that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There’s no reflection.

Kings

Moving

Powerful

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Christian

Inspiration

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

Commodity

Healthcare

Should

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Quotes by Jim Wallis

Jim Wallis

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can’t get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn’t say, “Blessed are the peace-lovers.” He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

But when one believes that you’ve been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil – that’s very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

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