William Stringfellow Quotes

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• Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.
• Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all;…
• The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and…
• The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection…
• The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.
• Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that…
• The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.
• Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other…
• Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.

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