"We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building."

-- Marcus Garvey

#Uplifting Quotes #Justice Quotes #Church Quotes

“I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.”
“Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.”
“I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer.”

Source : "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.
“Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.”
“My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brothers keeper.”
“Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.”
“Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.”
“Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity”

Source : Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.191, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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