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The logic of the Social Gospel presumed that a clear-eyed and courageous group of Christians could use rational suasion and moral authority to awaken the nation’s social conscience.
“When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
― Cry, the Beloved Country
“We do what is in us, and why it is in us, that is also a secret. It is Christ in us, crying that men may be succoured and forgiven, even when He Himself is forsaken.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
― Cry, the Beloved Country
“Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting. Faith is journeying through space and through time.”
― The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction
― The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction
“[C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?”
― Other Voices, Other Rooms
― Other Voices, Other Rooms
“He says we are not forsaken. For while I wonder for what we live and struggle and die, for while I wonder what keeps us living and struggling, men are sent to minister to the blind ... Who gives, at this one hour, a friend to make darkness light before me?”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
― Cry, the Beloved Country
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