Books Quote by Walter Wink

In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the…

— Walter Wink

Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is…

— Walter Wink

“The practical consequence of both of the teachings noted is to encourage homosexual promiscuity. Church members can engage in many short-term liaisons without raising…

— Walter Wink

Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.

— Walter Wink

“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most…

— Walter Wink

“The gospel, then, is not a message about the salvation of individuals from the world, but news about a world transfigured, right down to…

— Walter Wink

“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means.”

— Walter Wink

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that…

— Walter Wink

Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present.

— Walter Wink

“Personal redemption cannot take place apart from the redemption of our social structures.”

— Walter Wink

The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole…

— Walter Wink

“There is nothing, from DNA to the United Nations, that does not have God at its core. Everything has a spiritual aspect. Everything is…

— Walter Wink