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  • If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

  • To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

  • Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.

    Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.12, Harper Collins
  • So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

  • When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.

    "Frontline", www.pbs.org. April 29, 2004.
  • Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

  • Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

    Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.22, Harper Collins
  • 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  
  • Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

    "What the Waters Have Revealed" by Jim Wallis, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2005.
  • Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

    "God’s Politics: An Interview With Jim Wallis". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2005.
  • I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.

  • The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

    Faith   Religious   Gay  
  • The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

    Jim Wallis (2006). “God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it”, p.5, Lion Books
  • Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

  • We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

  • Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

  • Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

    Believe  
    Jim Wallis (1982). “Waging peace: a handbook for the struggle to abolish nuclear weapons”, Harpercollins
  • Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

    Believe  
    Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.12, Harper Collins
  • The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

  • It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.

    "The New Evangelical Leaders". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 29, 2007.
  • More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice. Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision. And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith. You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope.

  • 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.

  • The British Airways steward announced that the in-flight movie would be Chariots of Fire. 'Is that the only one?' I asked. 'We are also showing Gandhi,' he replied. 'Where do I have to sit to see it?" I responded. 'I'm sorry, sir, but Gandhi is only showing in first class.' The irony seemed to escape him.

  • 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.

  • I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

    Faith  
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