Cesar Chavez Quotes

Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

The scripture is filled with examples of genuine masculinity; you could mine David's story for probably a year by itself. And we have to get the masculinity of Jesus back. Not the pale-faced altar boy, but the man that made a weapon and cleared the temple, who boldly cast out demons and calmed the raging sea.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

I have had all my life-time to fight against powerful odds, but I have never seen any way to do, but to keep on fighting. No man ever yet stood up for truth and justice, God and heaven, but he had to complain of opposition from all quarters.

O be not weary of well doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of his might, till even American slavery (the vilest that ever saw the sun) shall vanish away before it.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.

Johnny Cash was a good man. He tried to live up to his faith. It was just difficult.

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life.

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."

Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.