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Top 15 William Stringfellow Quotes (2025 Update)

William Stringfellow Quote: “Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.”

1. “Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “The Christian social witness is achieved only insofar as Christians are deeply implicated in the real life of society – in unions and political clubs and citizen groups and the like; it is not made by Christian people gathering off by themselves in a parish house to study and discuss social issues.”

2. “The Christian social witness is achieved only insofar as Christians are deeply implicated in the real life of society – in unions and political clubs and citizen groups and the like; it is not made by Christian people gathering off by themselves in a parish house to study and discuss social issues.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.”

3. “The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “Acceptance of another person is acceptance of the other as he is, without entailing any demands that he change in any empirical way. This boy is an addict, and while I would rejoice if he were freed from this affliction, that would not change or increase my acceptance of him as a person. And though I am not an addict, that makes me no better nor any worse than he. I am not his judge. I am just his friend.”

4. “Acceptance of another person is acceptance of the other as he is, without entailing any demands that he change in any empirical way. This boy is an addict, and while I would rejoice if he were freed from this affliction, that would not change or increase my acceptance of him as a person. And though I am not an addict, that makes me no better nor any worse than he. I am not his judge. I am just his friend.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “Don’t be afraid. There is no more to fear. Do not fear rejection. If you fear rejection by another you do not love the other, though you may profess it. You are only being anxious for his love of you. The free man does not seek the love of others, nor fear that his love will be rejected, for rejection – as is known from the night Christ was betrayed – does not destroy love, and it does not destroy the one who loves. Don’t be afraid, you are not alone.”

5. “Don’t be afraid. There is no more to fear. Do not fear rejection. If you fear rejection by another you do not love the other, though you may profess it. You are only being anxious for his love of you. The free man does not seek the love of others, nor fear that his love will be rejected, for rejection – as is known from the night Christ was betrayed – does not destroy love, and it does not destroy the one who loves. Don’t be afraid, you are not alone.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “Biblical spirituality means powerlessness, living without embellishment or pretense, free to be faithful in the gospel, and free from anxiety about effectiveness or similar illusions of success.”

6. “Biblical spirituality means powerlessness, living without embellishment or pretense, free to be faithful in the gospel, and free from anxiety about effectiveness or similar illusions of success.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria – it’s not a benign material.”

7. “Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria – it’s not a benign material.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “It points, for instance, to the fact that there is never an abstract, single ‘Christian answer’ to an issue to which all Christians are bound to adhere or conform.”

8. “It points, for instance, to the fact that there is never an abstract, single ‘Christian answer’ to an issue to which all Christians are bound to adhere or conform.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “In other words, the most notorious, plain, and victorious truth of God is that God participates in our history – even yours and mine. Our history – all our anxieties – have become the scene of His presence and the matter of his care. We are safe. We are free. Wherever we turn we shall discover that God is already there. Therefore, wherever it be, fear not, be thankful, rejoice, and boast of God.”

9. “In other words, the most notorious, plain, and victorious truth of God is that God participates in our history – even yours and mine. Our history – all our anxieties – have become the scene of His presence and the matter of his care. We are safe. We are free. Wherever we turn we shall discover that God is already there. Therefore, wherever it be, fear not, be thankful, rejoice, and boast of God.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor.”

10. “The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.”

11. “Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.”

12. “The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.”

13. “The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “Notice, too, how often the standard of help – rehabilitation, as it is usually called – is not just made up of the common morality of middle class society, but specifically in how far the client or patient or case imitates and becomes like the case worker or probation person or professional – that is, in how far the one who is being helped becomes like the one who is helping him.”

14. “Notice, too, how often the standard of help – rehabilitation, as it is usually called – is not just made up of the common morality of middle class society, but specifically in how far the client or patient or case imitates and becomes like the case worker or probation person or professional – that is, in how far the one who is being helped becomes like the one who is helping him.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “The characteristic place to find a Christian is among his very enemies.”

15. “The characteristic place to find a Christian is among his very enemies.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “The separation of religion from the practical affairs of society is a convenient doctrine for those who fear that social change would threaten of modify their own political and social self-interest.”

16. “The separation of religion from the practical affairs of society is a convenient doctrine for those who fear that social change would threaten of modify their own political and social self-interest.”

— William Stringfellow

William Stringfellow Quote: “Crisis – that is, the serious encounter of a man with exactly that which now threatens his own life, with that which represents, signifies, and warns of his own death – is always terrible, wonderful, eventually inescapable, saving and holy.”

17. “Crisis – that is, the serious encounter of a man with exactly that which now threatens his own life, with that which represents, signifies, and warns of his own death – is always terrible, wonderful, eventually inescapable, saving and holy.”

— William Stringfellow

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