by Larissa Peters, your Official World Relief Tweeter…(thanks to Paul Kim and Allison Harp for these excellent pics)
If you’re like me, perhaps you felt that the Justice Conference was similar to those meals where you scarfed down as much good food as quickly as possible without truly tasting or savoring it.
I found myself frantically trying to record all the great quotes of the week end. My fear, however, was that I spent more time tracking the sound bites (pun intended) than I did remembering them, let alone digesting and internalizing them.
For those who weren’t able to taste everything, I thought I would put a couple of the favorite here (allowing one per speaker). My hope is that these bites become more than sound bites (as John Perkins so eloquently said), but that they become realities in each of our lives.
- “We’re not called to be them [the saints of Philly], we’re called to be us. Get inspired.” @ShaneClaiborne
- “When you study God, you learn about justice, when you study justice, you learn about God.” @KJWystma
- “Your theology will influence your anthropology.” @RevDocBrenda
- “We live justly because it brings God to light. It brings reconciliation.” @LeroyBarber
- Justice is doing more than saving the drowning people, it’s changing the ones who are pushing them into the lake. @NoelCCDA
- “You cannot play the victim. When you think the grass is greener on the other side, it probably is. Water the grass you are standing on.” @EugeneCho
- “If we are to have any hope for this era, we must not only recover justice, but we must recover prayer.” @GaryHaugen
- “More people have access to mobile phone technology than clean water…twitter is a real-time information platform, not a social media platform” @Claire Diaz-Ortiz
- “The DRCongo is the greatest tragedy to disfigure the human conscious.” @Stephanjbauman
- Do-go-Mez-an-yeah “strengthen together” – Cyprien Nikiriyumwami
- “Treating your neighbor justly is a way of loving your neighbor” – Nicholas Wolterstorf
- “There is an old Chinese proverb that says, ‘Women hold up half the sky’.” – Sheryl @Wudunn
- “It may seem counterintuitive to offer forgiveness before justice, but Jesus did.” @realchailing
- “Budgets are moral documents. They tell us who we care for and who we want to protect.” @LisaSHarper
- “We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.” @JohnMPerkins
- And the final bite comes from @LynneHybels: “Remember you are standing on the shoulders of those who have been doing this [justice] for a long time.”
If, after the conference or reading through the numerous blogs and articles about it, you are wondering “Now What?”click here to see what we have going on this year and how you could get involved.
Thanks to ALL who contributed, spoke, volunteered, cheered, sang, and listened at the Justice Conference. We hope to see you in Los Angeles but to also continue the conversations year-round.
