A Better World

War is not the answer. --Marvin Gaye

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. --Margaret Mead

There are two great lies that I've heard: "The day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die," and that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class Republican. And if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him.  --Derek Webb, "A King & A Kingdom," Mockingbird.

The 3 greatest essentials in life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. --Joseph Addison

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship.  --Martin Luther King Jr.

Experience is a comb that nature gives us when we're bald.  --Chinese Proverb

You can't fight and win a "war on terror." Terrorism is a method, not a country or ideology. I once heard it said that fighting a war on terror is like having the flu and declaring a war on sneezing: you're only attacking the symptoms.  --Omar Al-Rikabi (Sojourners)

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. --Billy Sunday

The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when somebody takes radically something that was always there. -H. Richard Niebuhr

The shortness of time is urged as an incentive for us to seek righteousness and to make Christ our friend. This is not the great motive. It savors of selfishness. Is it necessary that the terrors of the day of God be held before us to compel us through fear to right action? This ought not to be. Jesus is attractive.  --EG White

I have almost despaired as I have seen, year after year, a greater departure from that simplicity which God has shown me should characterize the life of His followers.  --EG White