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| 61cd166 | We led strange, hidden lives. We were advocating one thing: that this country rid itself of the racism that prevented some citizens from living as fully functioning men and as a result dehumanized all men. We were advocating only that this country live up to its promises to all citizens. But since racism always hides under a respectable guise - usually the guise of patriotism and religion - a great many people loathed us for knocking holes .. | John Howard Griffin | ||
| 53b0e54 | Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to "concede" to black men or that he wants to help black men "overcome" their blackness." | justice negro race racism racist separation white | John Howard Griffin | |
| 13ca0fb | I must have had a dozen rides that evening. They blear into a nightmare, the one scarcely distinguishable from the other. It quickly became obvious why they picked me up. All but two picked me up the way they would pick up a pornographic photograph or book - except that this was verbal pornography. With a Negro, they assumed they need give no semblance of self-respect or respectability. The visual element entered into it. In a car at night .. | racial-discrimination us-history | John Howard Griffin | |
| 60f767c | After the first difficulties in Rochester, New York, I was asked to consult with community leaders. I went and spoke for quite a long time. The leaders were concerned and sincere men. The first question one of them asked after I talked was: "Well, Mr. Griffin, what is the first thing we should do now?" I told him that I had been asked to come and consult with community leaders, and yet I was sitting in a room full of white men. The white ma.. | racial-discrimination us-history | John Howard Griffin | |
| 26856b3 | Many otherwise decent men and women could find no other solution. They are willing to degrade themselves to their basest levels to prevent the traditional laborer from rising in status or, to put it bluntly, from "winning," even though what he wins has been rightfully his from the moment he was born into the human race. I" | John Howard Griffin | ||
| 3a7fba4 | Didn't Shakespeare say something about 'every fool in error can find a passage of Scripture to back him up'? He knew his religious bigots. | John Howard Griffin | ||
| c894da9 | We shall remain prisoners of culture unless we become aware of the process and force ourselves to confront it and to deprogram it. | John Howard Griffin | ||
| 54f7903 | He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths. | arrogance education | John Howard Griffin | |
| 6106969 | I learned a strange thing... that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word "nigger" leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and it always stings. And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance. I thought with some amusement that if these two women only knew what they were revealing about themselves to every Negro on that bus, they would have been outraged." | ignorance racial-slurs slurs vulgarity | John Howard Griffin | |
| 9dcb784 | Once again a 'hate stare' drew my attention like a magnet. It came from a middle-aged, heavyset, well-dressed white man. He sat a few yards away, fixing his eyes on me. Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (r.. | John Howard Griffin | ||
| fe52904 | He was not talking with US, but with his IMAGE of us. | stereotypes | John Howard Griffin | |
| c8654ef | You can't get around what's right, though," he said. "When we stop loving them, that's when they win." | equality love peace | John Howard Griffin | |
| db37ecb | Man and woman, in a world without suffering, chose against God. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 4d4d0c5 | Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 4bbbca7 | That is the kind of shocking accessibility conveyed in Jesus' word Abba. God may be the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, but through his Son, God has made himself as approachable as any doting human father. | Philip Yancey | ||
| cda026d | God is already present in my life and all around me; prayer offers the chance to attend and respond to that presence. | Philip Yancey | ||
| f58e1e5 | Jesus' story makes no economic sense, and that was his intent. He was giving us a parable about grace, which cannot be calculated like a day's wages. Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 5eda39c | Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 0b8c0f6 | A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 95379d7 | When I listened to public prayers in evangelical churches, I heard people telling God what to do, combined with thinly veiled hints on how others should behave. When | Philip Yancey | ||
| 5134bc3 | My publisher conducted a website poll, and of the 678 respondents only 23 felt satisfied with the time they were spending in prayer. That | Philip Yancey | ||
| e66685d | Prosperity may dilute prayer too. In my travels I have noticed that Christians in developing countries spend less time pondering the effectiveness of prayer and more time actually praying. The | Philip Yancey | ||
| ad0315a | We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 4128c9a | Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about -- like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 35e1af0 | Eugene Peterson hace un contraste entre Agustin y Pelagio, dos teologos del siglo IV opuestos entre si. Pelagio era educado, cortes, convincente y le caia bien a todo el mundo. Agustin habia derrochado su juventud en la inmoralidad, tenia una extrana relacion con su madre y se conseguia muchos enemigos. Sin embargo, hizo de la gracia su punto de partida y las cosas le salieron bien, mientras que Pelagio comenzaba por el esfuerzo humano y se.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 7e42386 | We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 341c131 | Evil's greatest triumph may be its success in portraying religion as an enemy of pleasure when, in fact, religion accounts for its source: every good and enjoyable thing is the invention of a Creator who lavished gifts on the world. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 800fad0 | Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present. | prayer | Philip Yancey | |
| 1d00c8b | Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce. For this reason modern democracy grew out of Christian soil. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 97e7d90 | We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest. | prayer | Philip Yancey | |
| 368ed97 | The only effective antidote to the wickedness around us is to live differently from this moment forward. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 549eed0 | Christians obscured the good news by their efforts to restore morality to the broader culture? | Philip Yancey | ||
| 995c11d | Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love. | Philip Yancey | ||
| eb39a7b | A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God. | Philip Yancey | ||
| f8a09c1 | Why value humility in our approach to God? Because it accurately reflects the truth. Most of what I am -- my nationality and mother tongue, my race, my looks and body shape, my intelligence, the century in which I was born, the fact that I am still alive and relatively healthy -- I had little or no control over. On a larger scale, I cannot affect the rotation of planet earth, or the orbit that maintains a proper distance from the sun so tha.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 1bf9bb3 | When a doctoral student at Princeton asked, "What is there left in the world for original dissertation research?" Albert Einstein replied, "Find out about prayer. Somebody must find out about prayer." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 7939def | We pray because we can't help it. The | Philip Yancey | ||
| c22dd6d | La fidelidad implica aprender a confiar que, mas alla del perimetro de la oscuridad, Dios aun reina y no nos ha abandonado, no importa lo que parezca. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 58a8325 | Earth is crammed with heaven And every bush aflame with God But only those who see take off their shoes. --ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | Philip Yancey | ||
| b432123 | Andy Rooney, the late commentator on the 60 Minutes television show, once said, "I've decided I'm against abortion. I think it's murder. But I have a dilemma in that I much prefer the pro-choice to the pro-life people. I'd much rather eat dinner with a group of the former." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 8dde67e | Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 3099440 | As a Jewish rabbi put it, "A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, I am but dust and ashes.' On the other, For my sake was the world created.' And he should use each stone as he needs it."7-11" | Philip Yancey | ||
| ce3fb62 | Jesus was not crucified for being a good citizen, for being just a little nicer than everyone else. The powers of his day correctly saw him and his followers as subversives because they took orders from a higher power than Rome or Jerusalem. What would a subversive church look like in the modern United States? | Philip Yancey | ||
| b56b374 | I do not know if that theory is correct, but I do know that singling out one behavior as "sin" and emphasizing it over others provides a convenient way of dodging our own need for grace. High-minded moralism and shrill pronouncements of judgment may help fundraising, but they undermine a gospel of grace." | Philip Yancey |