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Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

When we begin enacting the new world, the nations will follow. Nations will not lead us to peace; it is people who will lead the nation to peace as they begin to humanize the nations.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children the myth of redemptive violence, the myth that violence can be an instrument for good.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus did, they get in trouble. Once we are actually friends with the folks in struggle, we start to ask why...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: ‘i am not too concerned with what i’m going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical