24 Quotes by William Stringfellow

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria – it’s not a benign material.

Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.

The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

It points, for instance, to the fact that there is never an abstract, single ‘Christian answer’ to an issue to which all Christians are bound to adhere or conform.

The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

Don’t be afraid. There is no more to fear. Do not fear rejection. If you fear rejection by another you do not love the other, though you may profess it. You are only being anxious for his love of you. The free man does not seek the love of others, nor fear that his love will be rejected, for rejection – as is known from the night Christ was betrayed – does not destroy love, and it does not destroy the one who loves. Don’t be afraid, you are not alone.

The characteristic place to find a Christian is among his very enemies.

Notice, too, how often the standard of help – rehabilitation, as it is usually called – is not just made up of the common morality of middle class society, but specifically in how far the client or patient or case imitates and becomes like the case worker or probation person or professional – that is, in how far the one who is being helped becomes like the one who is helping him.