Best 5 quotes of Phillip Michael Garner on MyQuotes

Hate is a power that hollows out reality of all that God intended. It empties the world of love, redemption, reconciliation, and opens the abyss of nothingness. It builds an irrefutable case against its object. It is a friend to those that exalt themselves above others. It is an uncreative force that deceives all participants. It is a pollutant that corrupts good intentions. Hate is an exclusionary act that dehumanizes its object. Hate is a parasite on the marrow of humanity.

Ignoring the poor is to show contempt for both God and humanity.

One aspect of love is the constant offering of a new beginning through the practice of forgiveness; the kind of forgiveness that writes a new story from a broken past.

Religion without concern for the present is useless; all who seek God in a broken world should avoid it. Religion is activism set afire by faith through love for God and neighbor. Good religion opposes humanity’s self-destructive nature and longs to conquer our inherent violence. Religion’s goal for its adherents is to loose them on society as burning lights who expose all that harms and corrupts so that we all share in the bounty of God’s creation. Religion is always a political force through its call to goodness.

The world doesn't work without forgiveness. Forgiveness is divine and creates newness of life.