Quotes about Advocacy

Love is "the alpha and the omega of apologetics," in the sense that all we say must come from love, and it must lead to love and to the One who is love—in other words, Christian advocacy must move from our love for God and his truth and beauty, to our love for the people we talk to and work right up to their love for God and his truth and beauty in their turn.

We are spokespersons for our Lord, and advocacy is in our genes.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

If our prayers for others mean anything at all, they cannot be cloistered away all the time in sanitised environments. Standing in the gap for the oppressed may well mean that it matters where we pray and how we pray, and that our prayers for the poor are worked out very practically.

Walter Brueggemann calls these parts of the Bible Israel's "countertestimony" . . . This spot-on term to name the dark side of the Bible, and which calls into question Israel's main storyline, comes from Walter Brueggemann's Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy.

If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:

Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.