Gary Haugen Quotes & Sayings

We must start talking differently about poverty
and start doing something differently. — Gary Haugen

Decide justice is worthy and refuse to go away. — Gary Haugen

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

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. — Gary Haugen

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

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. — Gary Haugen

Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer? — Gary Haugen

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

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

Leaders lead out of who they are on the inside. — Gary Haugen

Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide — Gary Haugen

There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience, — Gary Haugen

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

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

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us. — Gary Haugen

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. — Gary Haugen

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. — Gary Haugen

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

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. — Gary Haugen

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. — Gary Haugen

Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery, — Gary Haugen

God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people. — Gary Haugen