Ronald J. Sider famous quotes

04-29-2025

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something, and together we can change the world.
-- Ronald J. Sider

#Together We Can #World #Can Do Something
God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.
-- Ronald J. Sider

#Religious #Truth #Hypocrite
If we fail to feed the needy, we do not have God's love, no matter what we say. Regardless of what we do or say at 11am in a Sunday morn, affluent people who neglect the poor are not the people of God.
-- Ronald J. Sider

#Sunday #People #Matter
It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is because others are starving. Creation is good. But the one who gave us this gorgeous token of his affection has asked us to share it with our sisters and brothers.
-- Ronald J. Sider

#Christian #Brother #Clothes
It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.
-- Ronald J. Sider

#Christian #Brother #Years
Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.
-- Ronald J. Sider

#Sports #Believe #Luxury
What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!
-- Ronald J. Sider

#Christian #People #Ironic
Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective.
-- Ronald J. Sider

#Religious #Successful #Government
In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.
-- Ronald J. Sider

#Divorce #Average #Religion
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.
-- Ronald J. Sider

#Art #Book #Roles

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