Jim Wallis Quotes

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

Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.

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

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

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

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion—prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.