John M. Perkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.
-- John M. Perkins

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You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.
-- John M. Perkins

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Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.
-- John M. Perkins

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Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.
-- John M. Perkins

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We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.
-- John M. Perkins

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The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.
-- John M. Perkins

#Thinking #Church #Bigs
The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.
-- John M. Perkins

#Motivation #Skills #Needs
Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.
-- John M. Perkins

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Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.
I dropped my phone on the floor and let the pain assail me. I'd given my heart away to someone who didn't want it. Even knowing that, I didn't regret it. I just wanted him to want me. I just wanted him to love me too.
To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.
A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter's perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems. A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

John M. Perkins famous quotes

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