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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live,

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

Mother Theresa always said, Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

It is the church's job, as Dr.[Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life
especially one's politics?

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.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

Much of the Bible was written by murderers who were given a second chance. Moses. David. Paul. The Bible would be much shorter without grace.

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

We often miss the irony that the same Paul who writes "submit to the authorities" goes to jail and is condemned for subverting the authorities! He

This grace does not undo a tragedy or pardon a wrong, but it becomes the first step toward a more hopeful future.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

In an age of million-dollar mansions for God, it's hard to imagine that our God prefers tents.

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

Looking into the eyes of people who love us may be the clearest glimpse of God many of us get in this world.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

May the Lord bless us and keep us from all harm, and may God lead us to eternal life. Amen.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

The church was an international institution long before globalization.

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

God doesn't want to change the world without you.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

So live real good, and get beat up real bad. Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more. That's how this thing seems to work.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger.

Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.

Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

Perhaps the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort.

Grace gets the last word.

Only God is awesome.

We can live without sex, but we cant live without love.

If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.

In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne.

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

But Jesus answered me with these words and said: Sin is necessary, but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

Victimization is about powerlessness, and justice is about amplifying the voices of those who have been silenced. Healing

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

When I fed the hungry, they called me a saint. When I asked why people are hungry, they called me a communist. Charity

Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds.

It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

To be nonpartisan doesn't mean we're nonpolitical.

If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.

We must take a plunge into the darkness before we can fully appreciate the light.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

Christendom seems unprepared for people who take the gospel that seriously.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.

Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.