quotes for the day

I rediscovered this one:

“When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

Martin Luther King (cited on Eugene Cho’s blog - http://eugenecho.wordpress.com/)

and here:

Jesus exploded into the life of ancient Israel - the life of the world world, in fact - not as a teacher of timeless truths, nor as a great moral example, but as the one through whose life, death, and resurrection God's rescue operation was put into effect, and the cosmos turned its great corner at last. All worldviews are challenged to the core by this claim ... It is all because of Jesus that we speak of God the way we do. And it is all because of Jesus that we find ourselves called to live the way we do."

N.T. Wright, Simply Christian (one of my favorite books)