A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.
Interpretation
A Church must advocate for justice to remain significant and impactful in society.
This quote emphasizes the critical role of justice in the purpose and relevance of a Church. When a religious institution fails to speak out against injustice, it loses not only its moral authority but also its ability to influence and serve its community meaningfully.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon discussing the social responsibilities of faith communities.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.
You are awareness disguised as a human being.
Men build society and society builds men.
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.
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