The Colors of Hope Quotes

“We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us.”
― Richard Dahlstrom, The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love

“When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didn't tell us to go to church. He didn't tell us to engage in a spiritualized version of channel surfing, as we hop from place to place in search of just the right programming to entertain us. He told us to get out and actually do the stuff he'd already been doing, painting the hope of God's reign on the canvas of God's world. He told us we're artists.”
― Richard Dahlstrom, The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love

“Thankfully, God has shown us that hope, in its million different forms, always springs from three primary colors: justice, mercy, and love.”
― Richard Dahlstrom, The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Richard Dahlstrom, The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love

“I understand how people come to such conclusions. They see the church painting ugliness, arrogance, and lust on the canvas of this world, and so they walk or run away. There’s only one way to address this: We need to be painting different pictures—of justice, mercy, love, hospitality, celebration, and hope.”
― Richard Dahlstrom, The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love

“hope, in its million different forms, always springs from three primary colors: justice, mercy, and love.”
― Richard Dahlstrom, The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love

“What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future.[27] –N. T. Wright”
― Richard Dahlstrom, The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love

“This is what they need to see if they’ll ever be able to paint,” she says, her eyes smiling as she advocates for the need we all have to become children again so that our world creates enough wonder in us that we start paying attention.”
― Richard Dahlstrom, The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love

“Only those who remain teachable and moldable all their days will continue to see with increasing clarity.”
― Richard Dahlstrom, The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love