“The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.”— Charles Spurgeon, amazon.com
“Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.”— Charles Spurgeon, amazon.com
“At that place I got to be an experienced wolf. I would start the morning with sodomy, work as hard at it as I could all day and sometimes half the night…I was so busy committing sodomy that I didn't have time left to serve Jesus as I had been taught to do in those reform schools.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“Naturally, I now love Jesus very much. Yes, I love him so damn much that I would like to crucify him all over again!”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“But he knew how to tell the parole board what they wanted to hear. I sung 'em the same old song and gave 'em the same line about how I sure loved Jesus and what a good, nice young man I was and how much good it had done me to be sent to that prison.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“You know that I spent several years in one of those places [reform school] when I was a boy and the so-called Training that I received while there is mainly the cause of my being the degenerate beast that I am today. I have thought about that system of Training young boys for all of my life and I kn…”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“After serving about 2 years there I was pronounced by the parole board to be a nice, clean boy of good morals, as pure as lily and a credit to those in authority in the istatution [sic] where I had been sent to be reformed. Yes sure I was reformed all right, dam good and reformed too. When I got out…”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by t…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followers of Jesus, have in their life with him renounced their own dignity, for they are merciful. As if their own needs and their own distress were not enough, they take upon themselves the distress and humiliat…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“Segregation, separation, according to Jesus, is the basis of continuous violence.”— Bayard Rustin, afsc.org
“Separation, it seems to me, is the chief sin precisely because violence is automatically the result of separation and ostracism between individuals or groups or nations, and my point was that whenever there is such separation and such automatic violence it is naive to believe that you can deal with…”— Bayard Rustin, blogcitylights.com
“Already, they have begun to do to Gandhi what has been done to Jesus—worship him as an unobtainable ideal. That is the sin of men of goodwill—not really to believe in their own power.”— Bayard Rustin, huffingtonpost.com
“Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a foll…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.”— Gordon Fisher, books.google.com
“I cannot help saying quite harshly and bluntly that the Jewish people came to grief and disgrace because of its own ‘Positive Christianity!’ It (the Jewish people) bears a curse throughout the history of the world because it was ready to approve of its Messiah just as long and as far as it thought i…”— Martin Niemoller, spartacus-educational.com