Quotes about Crisis

There's no question we need more housing, and we have to fight for that throughout California.

There's a bad time coming, boys, there's a bad time coming! If things go on as they are, there's nothing lies in the future but death and destruction, for these industrial masses.

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

That insight, that God is to be found not in the crisis but in our response to the crisis, is the key to understanding one of the most important passages in the entire Bible.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.

deaths of despair escalating in terrifying ways as people struggled with the dislocation and isolation that the pandemic had caused.

God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.

Emergencies are opportunities to bring God into the realities of your life.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. The crisis of this line of thought is the realization that we are at once limited and unendingly responsible for what we know and do.

the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.

When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was deserting. If everyone of any value leaves France, what will remain of France?

When tragedy happens a real family pulls together, mine ripped apart.