"The characteristic place to find Christians is among……" — William Stringfellow
"The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell."
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William Stringfellow
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9 Quotes by William Stringfellow
William Stringfellow has 9 quotes on this site.
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Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.
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Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious…
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The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the…
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The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It…
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The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.
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Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint,…
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Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and…
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Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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