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Jim Wallis Quote: “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.”

51. “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.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “For a very long time, white evangelicalism has been simply wrong on the issue of race. Indeed, conservative white Christians have served as a bastion of racial segregation and a bulwark against racial justice efforts for decades, in the South and throughout the country. During the civil rights struggle, the vast majority of white evangelicals and their churches were on the wrong side – the wrong side of the truth, the Bible, and the gospel.”

52. “For a very long time, white evangelicalism has been simply wrong on the issue of race. Indeed, conservative white Christians have served as a bastion of racial segregation and a bulwark against racial justice efforts for decades, in the South and throughout the country. During the civil rights struggle, the vast majority of white evangelicals and their churches were on the wrong side – the wrong side of the truth, the Bible, and the gospel.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “For people of faith and conscience, these issues about implicit racial bias and the realities of white privilege in our society are not just political matters; they are moral and religious questions.”

53. “For people of faith and conscience, these issues about implicit racial bias and the realities of white privilege in our society are not just political matters; they are moral and religious questions.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “But no matter where you go as a white person in American society, no matter where you live, no matter who your friends and allies are, and no matter what you do to help overcome racism, you can never escape white privilege in America if you are white.”

54. “But no matter where you go as a white person in American society, no matter where you live, no matter who your friends and allies are, and no matter what you do to help overcome racism, you can never escape white privilege in America if you are white.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “As Martin Luther King Jr. said in his “I Have a Dream” speech, whose fiftieth anniversary has now passed, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”1 King’s dream failed that night in Florida when Zimmerman decided to follow Martin because of the color of his skin.”

55. “As Martin Luther King Jr. said in his “I Have a Dream” speech, whose fiftieth anniversary has now passed, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”1 King’s dream failed that night in Florida when Zimmerman decided to follow Martin because of the color of his skin.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “The sociology of many white communities shapes the theology of their churches, making them “conformed to the world” and disobedient to the gospel.”

56. “The sociology of many white communities shapes the theology of their churches, making them “conformed to the world” and disobedient to the gospel.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don’t believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.”

57. “I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don’t believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “As I have talked with black friends about this book, especially with black parents, the line that has elicited the most response is this one: “If white Christians acted more Christian than white, black parents would have less to fear for their children.”

58. “As I have talked with black friends about this book, especially with black parents, the line that has elicited the most response is this one: “If white Christians acted more Christian than white, black parents would have less to fear for their children.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “Christ instructs us to love our enemies, which does not mean a submission to their hostile agendas or domination, but does mean treating them as human beings also created in the image of God and respecting their human rights as adversaries and even as prisoners.”

60. “Christ instructs us to love our enemies, which does not mean a submission to their hostile agendas or domination, but does mean treating them as human beings also created in the image of God and respecting their human rights as adversaries and even as prisoners.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “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.”

61. “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.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.28.”

62. “But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.28.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “It was one of the best examples I have seen of the church stepping up to be the church.”

63. “It was one of the best examples I have seen of the church stepping up to be the church.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “The heart of racism was and is economic, though its roots and results are also deeply cultural, psychological, sexual, religious, and, of course, political. Due to 246 years of brutal slavery and an additional 100 years of legal segregation and discrimination, no area of the relationship between black and white people in the United States is free from the legacy of racism.”

64. “The heart of racism was and is economic, though its roots and results are also deeply cultural, psychological, sexual, religious, and, of course, political. Due to 246 years of brutal slavery and an additional 100 years of legal segregation and discrimination, no area of the relationship between black and white people in the United States is free from the legacy of racism.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.”

65. “I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “Living in faith is knowing that even though our little work, our little seed, our little brick, our little block may not make the whole thing, the whole thing exists in the mind of God, and that whether or not we are there to see the whole thing is not the most important matter. The most important thing is whether we have entered into the process.”

66. “Living in faith is knowing that even though our little work, our little seed, our little brick, our little block may not make the whole thing, the whole thing exists in the mind of God, and that whether or not we are there to see the whole thing is not the most important matter. The most important thing is whether we have entered into the process.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “Obedience to the law, even unjust laws, had become one of the most egregious ways that ministers and their churches had become conformed to their culture.”

67. “Obedience to the law, even unjust laws, had become one of the most egregious ways that ministers and their churches had become conformed to their culture.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “The Confederate flag had been raised above the South Carolina statehouse in 1962 – in direct defiance of racial integration and the civil rights movement3 – and has been used as an emblem of white hate and violence against black people ever since. It is therefore an anti-Christian flag that helped inspire the murder of black Christians on June 17, 2015.”

68. “The Confederate flag had been raised above the South Carolina statehouse in 1962 – in direct defiance of racial integration and the civil rights movement3 – and has been used as an emblem of white hate and violence against black people ever since. It is therefore an anti-Christian flag that helped inspire the murder of black Christians on June 17, 2015.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “If white Christians acted more Christian than white, black parents would have less to fear for their children.”

69. “If white Christians acted more Christian than white, black parents would have less to fear for their children.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “Martin Luther King Jr., the nation’s apostle of nonviolence, once said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.”32 But King also showed us that, ultimately, only disciplined, sacrificial, and nonviolent social movements can change things.”

70. “Martin Luther King Jr., the nation’s apostle of nonviolence, once said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.”32 But King also showed us that, ultimately, only disciplined, sacrificial, and nonviolent social movements can change things.”

Jim Wallis Quote: “White privilege is a sin of which we must repent, and the best way to show that is by changing practices and policies – and by helping to create new communities that provide for another way.”

71. “White privilege is a sin of which we must repent, and the best way to show that is by changing practices and policies – and by helping to create new communities that provide for another way.”

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