Letty M. Russell quotes

Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that speaks from the perspective of those who have been crushed and marginalized in our society. It would need to be a word of solidarity, healing and love in situations of brokenness and despair and a disturbing and troubling word of justice to those who wish to protect their privilege by exclusion.
-- Letty M. Russell

#Healing #Justice #Perspective

Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.
-- Letty M. Russell

#Healing #Our World #Practice

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.
-- Letty M. Russell

#Bible #Mean #Men

What is life for? Life is for you.

Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.

Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.