Max Lucado Quotes

I'm a Christian and my motivation for joining activism is that I think we should be salt and light.

As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate for those who cannot speak for themselves. I plan to focus my future work on human rights and religious freedom - both domestic and international - as well as matters of the culture and the American family.

I believe that we have a duty to look frankly at the social conditions around us and to work to do what we can to address the specific needs which we find.

Christians need to embrace that there need to be believers talking about love and social issues and all other aspects of life.

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.

The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.

Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

One thing really important is that we set out an agenda of compassionate Conservativism. That's what I've been trying to do in the Justice Department.

Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

For sure, I think that's the mission in all life, whether it's basketball, being a doctor, building a company. I think we take social justice and the lessons we're learning now, that everybody is learning.

Do you care about climate justice? Are you about women's rights and women's reproductive rights? Do you care about civil liberties and the Voting Rights Act? There are so many opportunities for people to go back and be inspired and plug into their own community.

All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in helping those in need. In contrast, the US carried out a virtual war against the church in central America in the 1980's primarily because prime elements in the church were working with great courage and honor to help those in need. And to organize them to help themselves.

We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.