Jenni

“My culture gives me no categories to view suffering—especially suffering at the hands of an oppressor—as victory. My culture sees suffering only as defeat, as evil. It never sees suffering as a means of victory. This is why I need to read John’s vision about what’s really going on from God’s perspective to correct my American, self-serving, “I will defend my rights at all costs” mind-set. I need to follow the slaughtered Lamb wherever He goes, so that I can reign with Him in victory. THE”
― Preston Sprinkle, Fight: A Christian Case for Non-Violence

“The point about truth, and about Jesus and his followers bearing witness to it, is that truth is what happens when humans use words to reflect God's wise ordering of the world and so shine light into its dark corners, bringing judgment and mercy where it is badly needed. Empires can't cope with this. They make their own 'truth,' creating 'facts on the ground' in the depressingly normal way of violence and injustice.”
― N.T. Wright, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

“I saw the cross as the place where Jesus refounded the world. Instead of being organized around an axis of power enforced by violence, at the cross the world was refounded around an axis of love expressed in forgiveness.”
― Brian Zahnd, Water To Wine: Some of My Story

“The nonviolent rhythms of the cross meet the melodies of this world with dissonance. I”
― Preston Sprinkle, Fight: A Christian Case for Non-Violence