Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God’s blessing on the poor rather than on the rich and would insist that it’s not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.”
Shane Claiborne
“I’m just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, “When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.”
Shane Claiborne
“In an age of million-dollar mansions for God, it’s hard to imagine that our God prefers tents.”
Shane Claiborne
“There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.”
Shane Claiborne
“Patting mother Theresa on the back, someone said to her: ‘I wouldn’t do what you do for a million dollars.’ She said with a grin: ‘me neither.”
Shane Claiborne
“I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a shit. What’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.”
Tony Campolo
“But isn’t it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?”
Tony Campolo
“Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.”
Tony Campolo
“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
Dorothy Day
“Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.”
Dorothy Day
“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
Dorothy Day
“Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.”
Dorothy Day
“There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.”
Dorothy Day
“One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it – and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.”
John Wesley
“You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.”
William Wilberforce
“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
Mother Teresa
“Live simply so others may simply live.” – Mother Teresa “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
Mother Teresa
“If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.”
Gustavo Gutierrrez
“I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.”
Bob Goff
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.”
Bob Goff
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