Jim Wallis Quotes

• You can’t be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

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• When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what’s happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that’s a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.

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• What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I’ve wrestled with that very question myself.

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• We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people – half of God’s children – are living on less than $2 a day.

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• We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? ‘Why?’ is the prophetic question.

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• The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it’s a faith issue, it’s a religious issue.

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• The left and right are not religious categories. They’re often not even value categories.

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• The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

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• Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

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• So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, ‘Where is faith being put into action here?’

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• No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We’re not just service providers.

  Jim Wallis

• Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, ‘The church is not meant to be the master of the state.’ We don’t sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people’s throats.

  Jim Wallis

• If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let’s use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

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• I’m often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it’s very real. I think it’s deeply held.

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• I think it’s a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

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• I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

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• I don’t think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they’re religious, if they’re doing good work. But government can’t subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can’t.

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• I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don’t believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

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• Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

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• But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil – that’s very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

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Birth:	4th June, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Editor, Pastor, Speaker, Theologian

About

James E. Wallis Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is an American bestselling author, activist, editor, pastor, public theologian and speaker. He studied at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Michigan State University. He is best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine. He is well known for his advocacy on issues of peace and social justice. He is also a leader in the Red-Letter Christian movement. He has been arrested 22 times for acts of civil disobedience. He was involved in antiwar activism during the Vietnam War. He worked as a spiritual advisor to President Barack Obama. He has written several books include: Agenda for Biblical people, The call to conversion, The Soul of Politics, God's Politics, The Great Awakening, Rediscovering Values, On God's Side, and America's Original Sin. In 1995, he received the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award. He was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award in 2000. He is married to Joy Carroll who was one of the first female priests in the Church of England. They have two sons.

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