Jim Wallis Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Thinking, Leader

• Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

  Jim Wallis

  Believe, People, Alternatives

  Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.12, Harper Collins

• Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

  Jim Wallis

  War, Doors, Wings

  "God’s Politics: An Interview With Jim Wallis". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2005.

• I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

  Jim Wallis

  Religious, Believe, Church

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