Gary Haugen Quotes

• The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.

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  Passion, Our World, Long

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• When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.

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  Grandchildren, Compassion, Leader

  Gary Haugen, Gregg Hunter (2010). “Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

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  Slavery, Modern, Happens

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• Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

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  Justice, Done, Want

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2016

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• God has a plan to help bring justice to the world - and his plan is us.

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  Passion, Justice, World

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• And here is one choice that our Father wants us to understand as Christians – and I believe this is the choice of our age: Do we want to be brave or safe? Gently, lovingly, our heavenly Father wants us to know that we simply can’t be both.

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  Christian, Father, Believe

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• Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy.

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  Jesus, Compassion, Giving

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• Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul.

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  Brave, Scary, Soul

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• If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.

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  Wrestling, Thinking, Decision

  Gary A. Haugen (2009). “Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian”, p.106, InterVarsity Press

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• Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.

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  Passion, Endurance, Needs

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• Decide justice is worthy and refuse to go away.

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  Justice, Going Away, Worthy

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• There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.

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  Moving, Justice, Obedience

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• We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction

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  Long, Justice, Helping

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• God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it.

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  People, Giving, Doe

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• Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.

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  Jesus, Strong, Children

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• One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.

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  Regret, Adventure, Thinking

  Gary A. Haugen (2009). “Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian”, p.13, InterVarsity Press

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• The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.

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  Smart, People, Brave

  Gary A. Haugen (2009). “Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian”, p.118, InterVarsity Press

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• Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery.

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  World, Slavery, Injustice

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• We must start talking differently about poverty--and start doing something differently.

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  Talking, Poverty

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• Leaders lead out of who they are on the inside.

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  Leader

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• God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people.

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  People, Miracle, Doe

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• Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide

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  Opportunity, Sky, Half

  Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros (2015). “The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence”, p.295, Oxford University Press

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