Quotes about Them

But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.

So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

I don't think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.' I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.

It's as if attentive people create a magnetic force field for stor- ies the tellers themselves didn't know they had within them.

In America, racism is our oldest curse. But there are other divides—over religion, immigration, sexual identity. Sometimes the "them" strategy is just a narcotic to feed the beast in all of us.