37 Quotes by Walter Wink

The failure of churches to continue Jesus’ struggle to overcome domination is one of the most damning apostasies in its history. With some thrilling exceptions, the churches of the world have never yet decided that domination is wrong.

Harboring enmity and seeking revenge only perpetuates the power of oppressors to lord it over their victims long after the deed was done. Thus, at the most fundamental level, forgiveness spells liberation for the victim.

Loving confrontation can free both the oppressed from docility and the oppressor from sin.

No war today could be called just, given the inevitable level of casualties and atrocities.

Neutrality in a situation of oppression always supports the status quo.

Faith requires at times marching into the waters before they part.

There is no one, and surely no entire people, in whom the image of God has been utterly extinguished. Faith in God means believing that anyone can be transformed, regardless of the past. To write off whole groups of people as intrinsically racist and violent is to accept the very same premise that upholds racist and oppressive regimes.

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

I cannot really be open to the call of God in a situation of oppression if the one thing I have excluded as an option is my own suffering and death.