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Terrorists as well as saints are the outcome of spiritual formation. -
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I hold that in every situation of injustice and oppression, the Christian—who cannot deal with it by violence—must make himself completely a part of it as representative of the victims. -
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The vast majority of violence oppressing the poor is not driven by the overwhelming power of the perpetrators—it’s driven by the utter vulnerability of the victims. Give the poor a strong, consistent ... -
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The skills have been lost of being present for and in another, and what remains is mistrust and violence. -
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. -
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The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that ... -
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Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer. -
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Above all, Christians are not allowed to correct with violence. -
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Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion…they need our legs & lungs of endurance. -
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The one category where we could not see where the body of Christ had very much capacity to respond was where the poor were the victims of violence. -
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One of the biggest forms of violence that the poor suffer around the world is slavery. -
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We may be “connected,” but we’re lonely, we’re isolated from each other, and we’ve become afraid of each other. That fear has produced acts of violence that are becoming all too common. -
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In 2015, the Guardian reported that 1,134 people were killed by police in the United States. And that number is only an estimate because it is still not mandatory to report these deaths to the Justice... -
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We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, ou... -
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We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us. -
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. -
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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. -
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Nothing good ever comes of violence. -
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Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. -
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. -
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Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increa... -
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The problem has never been the ways that victims don’t tell, so much as it has been that some victims aren’t seen as valuable to protect. -
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Jesus offers a new sort of justice, a creative, healing, restorative justice. The old justice found in the Bible was designed to prevent revenge running away with itself. Better an eye for an eye and ... -
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To be struck on the right cheek, in that world, almost certainly meant being hit with the back of the right hand. That’s not just violence, but an insult: it implies that you’re an inferior, perhaps a... -
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Peace is fierce—it has to be, because violence and discord won’t go down without a fight. -
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier. -
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness. -
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“Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.” -
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The real enemy, after all, was not Rome but the powers of evil that stood behind human arrogance and violence…. [On the cross] the kingdom of God triumphed over the kingdoms of this world by refusing ... -
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It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of pre...
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