Top 35 Gary Haugen Quotes
#1. Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy,
Gary Haugen
#2. The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.
Gary Haugen
#3. We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction
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#4. God has a plan to help bring justice to the world - and his plan is us.
Gary Haugen
#5. God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people.
Gary Haugen
#6. God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it.
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#7. Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul.
Gary Haugen
#9. If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.
Gary Haugen
#10. We must start talking differently about poverty
and start doing something differently.
Gary Haugen
#11. It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on a psychological level, we can describe as mental health or happiness. Like buildings, we, too, contain opposites which can be more or less successfully handled.
Alain De Botton
#12. There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience,
Gary Haugen
#13. The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
Betty Grable
#14. If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.
Mark Shand
#15. The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.
Gary Haugen
#16. Leaders lead out of who they are on the inside.
Gary Haugen
#17. We've only been sitting here forty minutes. I'm never at the morning table less than an hour and a half. I do some of my finest plotting over breakfast coffee and raisin brioche.
Dean Koontz
#18. Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil
Novala Takemoto
#19. Intimate relationships only have God's blessing if the man and woman are married.
Sunday Adelaja
#20. the poor don't have much in the way of money or possessions to steal - so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal is the whole person.
Gary A. Haugen
#21. Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery,
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#22. Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.
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#24. Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
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#25. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
Gautama Buddha
#26. Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide
Gary Haugen
#27. When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.
Gary Haugen
#28. Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer?
Gary Haugen
#29. Violence in the developing world is like grief in the developed world - it's everywhere, but we just don't see it.
Gary A. Haugen
#30. One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.
Gary Haugen
#31. Decide justice is worthy and refuse to go away.
Gary Haugen
#32. Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion ... they need our legs & lungs of endurance.
Gary Haugen
#33. This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
Wislawa Szymborska
#34. The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
Norman Vincent Peale
#35. She had a certain guarded melancholy, no doubt, but no despair" (44).
Gary A. Haugen
