Dan Barker Quotes

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

God isn't separate from us, because He's the love inside our minds. Every problem, inside and out, is due to a separation from love on someone's part. Thirty-five thousand people a day die of hunger on earth, and there's no dearth of food. The question is not 'what kind of God would let children starve?' but rather, 'What kind of people let children starve?'

Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.