God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all–no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

Ronald J. Sider
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe
  2. When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. - Jess C. Scott
  3. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. - Mahatma Gandhi
  4. Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then... - Thomas Merton
More Quotes By Ronald J. Sider
  1. Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?
  2. God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all–no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.
  3. What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!
  4. It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even–in some cases–enough food to escape starvation.
  5. God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.
Related Topics