Frases de Rachel Scott

Rachel Joy Scott fue una estudiante estadounidense, y la primera víctima de la masacre de la Escuela Secundaria de Columbine, la cual cobró la vida de 12 estudiantes y un profesor, junto con la de los dos perpetradores, convirtiéndolo en uno de los tiroteos escolares más mortales de la historia de Estados Unidos.

La creencia de Scott en el cristianismo y las circunstancias controvertidas de su muerte la han llevado a ser recordada por grupos de cristianos evangélicos como una mártir cristiana. Ella fue póstumamente el tema y coautor de varios libros y la inspiración para "Rachel's Challenge", un programa internacional de extensión escolar y el programa de asamblea escolar más popular en Estados Unidos.[1]​[2]​ El programa sigue los valores éticos de Scott, basados en su vida, su diario y un ensayo que ella misma escribió un mes antes de la masacre, titulado My Ethics; My Codes of Life.[3]​ El ensayo habla de la compasión como "la forma más grande que los humanos tienen para expresar su amor."[4]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 5. agosto 1981 – 20. abril 1999
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Rachel Scott: Frases en inglés

“There is a God and I'm going to serve him for the rest of my life.”

Fuente: Letter to Mark Bodiford http://racheljoyscott.tumblr.com/post/159838052080/rachels-suicide-journal-entry-to-mark-bodiford (1998)

“If you had to make a list of the top 5 things most important to you, what would you put? Here's mine 1. God 2. Family 3. friends 4. my future 5. myself.”

Fuente: "May 4, 98" https://66.media.tumblr.com/7f99426ff633f0e174ad13f215dc6b85/tumblr_phql76LS101v18yoxo1_1280.png (4 May 1998)

“I can see him. I know that God is real. I know it in my heart. You can only believe in what you know to be true. You know your own truth. I know mine. Everyone should be able to find that within themselves.”

Fuente: As quoted in No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine https://books.google.com/books?id=kI4YwhBD7FgC&pg=PA149 (2002), by Brooks Brown and Rob Merritt, New York: Lantern Books, p. 149

“It's hard to be desperate, when you are dead.”

Fuente: "Desperate Measures" (25 April 1998), as quoted in Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine https://books.google.com/books?id=GE5sCrZ9JwkC&pg=PA109 (2008), by Beth Nimmo, Darrell Scott, and Steve Rabey, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, p. 127

“Faith brings peace. Faith brings joy.”

Fuente: "Desperate Measures" (25 April 1998), as quoted in Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine https://books.google.com/books?id=GE5sCrZ9JwkC&pg=PA109 (2008), by Beth Nimmo, Darrell Scott, and Steve Rabey, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, p. 127

“It's not about that for me. I'm not trying to go out there and convert people. I just want to be an example. I want to live my life for God, and let other people take from that whatever they want.”

As quoted in No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine https://books.google.com/books?id=kI4YwhBD7FgC&pg=PA150 (2002), by Brooks Brown and Rob Merritt, New York: Lantern Books, p. 150