Quotes about Borders

All asylum seekers at our border should remind us that we are a nation of immigrants and that we were once strangers at the border.

The lies that capture us as Christians usually seem to fit well within the borders of our Christianity.

As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.

Unaligned, nobly interventionist, unbrooked by nations and political parties, private interests or public exhaustion, Amnesty International declares states, walls, borders irrelevant to its humanitarian goals, detrimental to its tasks, by summoning responsibility and refusing to accept a myopic government's own narrative of its behavior.

Much of the alarm hovering at the borders, the gates, is stoked, it seems to me, by (1) both the threat and the promise of globalism and (2) an uneasy relationship with our own foreignness, our own rapidly disintegrating sense of belonging. Let me begin with globalization. In

Walking seasons are marked by our initiatives to co-labor with God's divine purposes, to extend the borders of the Kingdom into the lives of others.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism in art and in politics is a veiled longing for death.

The darkness was pure, perfect, thoughtless, visionless; that darkness was without end, without borders; that darkness was the infinite we each carry within us.

Theology is not an excursion into the stratosphere that lies beyond scriptural sppech in time: it may not travel beyond the borders of faith's perspective. Beyond the word of Scripture we dare not go, in speech or theological reflection; for it is in this word that God's love in Jesus Christ is revealed. There is nothing beyond that.

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.