Jim Wallis Quotes

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

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

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

The world will not change until we do

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.

Why?' is the prophetic question.

Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

The kingdom of God, which Jesus came to inaugurate, is meant to create an alternate reality in this world, and ultimately to transform the kingdoms of this world.

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.