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“We don’t experience life as it is. We experience life as we are”

(from the Talmud – part of the central text of the Jewish faith)

Nice quote

I couldn't say it better...

This is the PowerPoint I used today having spoken at Brentwood Baptist Church, the church from whence I came...

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"Christian Aid is not a colonial arm of the church, saying "We have the resources and we'll export them". Rather it says, "We believe the Holy Spirit has given gifts and sensitivities to all people and we will enable [them] to improve the life of their own nations"
John L Bell, The Iona Community

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"Our lives begin to end when we fail to speak out against the things that really matter."
Martin Luther King Jnr

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"I think that we have greatly deformed the gospel. We have tried to live a very comfortable gospel, without committing ourselves, merely being pious, having a gospel that we are content with."

Oscar Romero, June 19th 1977

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"I went up to a man and said, "Jesus loves you"... but I realised it didn't mean anything unless I did it."
Jackie Pullinger, St Stephen's Society

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

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"It is now more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern conflict."
Maj. Gen. Patrick Cammaert, 2008, former UN Peacekeeping Operation Commander in DR Congo

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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
Paulo Freire