More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice. Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision. And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith. You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope.
Jim WallisIf you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.
Jim WallisLast year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.
Jim WallisWe have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.
Jim Wallis