Quotes About Movement

The Christian nationalist movement is not a grassroots movement. Understanding its appeal to a broad mass of American voters is necessary in explaining its strength but is not sufficient in explaining the movement's direction. It is a means through which a small number of people — quite a few of them residing in the Washington, DC, area — harness the passions, resentments, and insecurities of a large and diverse population in their own quest for power.

Forty years ago, when both sides of certain cultural issues could be found in either party, it made sense to speak of the religious right as a social movement that cut across the partisan divide. Today it makes more sense to regard the Republican Party as a host vehicle for a radical movement that denies that the other party has any legitimate claim to political power.

Other observers may reasonably use terms like "theocracy," "dominionism," "fundamentalism," or "Christian right." I use those terms where appropriate, but often prefer "Christian nationalism" in referring to the whole, because it both reflects the political character of the movement and because it makes clear its parallels between the American version and comparable political movements around the world and throughout history.

The version of the religious right that put Donald Trump in the White House is the one that stepped onto the national stage in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan. It gathered force with another iteration of its founding lie — that it represented the moral majority of the nation — and this lie is yet another cause of its weakness. The movement does not speak for a majority. It is a militant minority.

Republican party as a host vehicle for a radical movement that denies that the other party has any legitimate claim to political power.

It is not a social or cultural movement. It is a political movement, and its ultimate goal is power.

One political party endorses ultraconservative varieties of religion and it is exploiting them to lock in power. This is how the Christian nationalist movement works.

While many Americans still believe that the Christian right is primarily concerned with "values," leaders of the movement know it's really about power.

Perhaps the most salient impediment to our understanding of the movement is the notion that Christian nationalism is a "conservative" ideology. The correct word is "radical.

Yet the fundamental difference today is that one party is now beholden to a movement that does not appear to have much respect for representative democracy.

In order to achieve political unity around abortion, the leaders of the emerging Christian nationalist movement understood, it was also necessary to change the deep frame of American religion. So that is what they set out to do. The modern pro-life religion that dominates America's conservative churches and undergirds a variety of their denominations is a political creation.

the Bible of Christian nationalism answers to the requirements of the individuals who fund the movement and grant it power at the highest levels of government

You cannot do this course effectively on the level of intellect. In other words, while it's fine to read through the course before going back to actually do the practices, I can promise you authentic movement in your life only to the extent that you are willing to do the course and not just read the course.

the human potential movement, as it encourages us to be undeterred by our current life conditions, to nobly strive toward the possibilities of an abundant and flourishing life, no matter what evidence we might be experiencing to the contrary.

THE WORLD IS made of patterns. The rings of a tree. The raindrops on the dusty ground. The path the sun follows from morning to dusk.

You have to do something after a while, don't you?

In September countless sand and house-martins jazz above the river, taking insects from the surface, from the air, thousands of birds kissing the river farewell. They creak, a sound like the air rubbing against itself. Summer is everything they know; they're preparing themselves, sensing in the shortening days a door they must dash through before it shuts.

Alas, Max, this will pain you, I know, but you must realize the truth. There are movements far bigger than the men who make them up. As for me, I am a part of the movement. Heinrich is an officer in the boys' corps, which is headed by Baron Von Freische, whose rank is now shedding a luster upon our house, for he comes often to visit with Heinrich and Elsa, whom he much admires.

I would argue that without social media and the internet, the Catalan independence movement could not possibly have progressed so far in such a short space of time, and even with the same chain of political events, levels of pro-independence activism and voter support would have been much lower at this stage.

One foot in front of the other. This is how a person walks... A trail unfolding just ahead of each footstep... resilient underfoot.

getting up and taking action. - Al Batt

Part of the practice of celebrating is pausing and owning our own healing, movement, change, and positive shifts in our lives. It starts with us. It helps to look at where we've been, where we are now, what we've overcome, what we've survived, what we've learned, how we've changed.

Faith is not knowledge. It's not static. It's not a "thing" we can grasp. Rather, it's an act, occurrence, mode of being. It's a mix of actions that reflect God in us and through us. It's a myriad of -ing words that are active, tangible, and always in motion. Faith is a verb. It's meant to be practiced.

I drained my glass and we headed down into the garden.