ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

♦ Awe rather than faith is the cardinal attitude of the religious Jew. (Although I am not Jewish, my heart aligns with this statement)

♦ Some are guilty, all are responsible.

DORORTHY DAY

♦ Have we even begun to be Christians?

♦ I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

THOMAS MERTON

♦ Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about [God].

♦ Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

DANIEL BERRIGAN

♦ We have assumed the name of peacemakers, but we have been, by and large, unwilling to pay any significant price. And because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total—but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial. . .

There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war—at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr.

♦ Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

HOWARD THURMAN

♦ Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

JOAN CHITTISTER

♦ Those who have no flame in their hearts for justice, no consciousness of responsibility for the reign of God, no raging commitment to human community may indeed be seeking God. But make no mistake, God is still, at best, only an idea to them, not a reality. Indeed, contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face with the world, face to face with the self. And then, of course, something must be done. Nothing stays the same once we have found the God within…. We carry the world in our hearts: the oppression of all peoples, the suffering of our friends, the burdens of our enemies, the raping of the Earth, the hunger of the starving, the joy of every laughing child.

Which one of these sayings resonates most with you? Challenges you? Urges you? Carry it with you this week as you try to enact the truth it speaks.