Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.

This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.

The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?

Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.

If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you could possibly end up with a world in which millions of people were starving, thirsty, and poor; the earth was being exploited and polluted; disease and despair were everywhere; and Christians weren’t known for doing much about it. If it got bad enough, you might even have people rejecting Jesus because of how his followers lived. That would be tragic.

A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

I've found myself getting more and more cynical about what's happening to the planet - it makes me furious.

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.

The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.

Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death and mercy.

Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.