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To bless is to put a bit of yourself into something. It is to make holy, to change something or someone because of your presence.
~ Macrina Wiederkehr Read more [...]
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Truly! Truly! By God! By God! Be as sure of it as you are that God lives: at the least good deed done here in this world, the least bit of good will, the least good desire, all the saints in heaven and on earth rejoice, and together Read more [...]
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Faith is living in uncertainty without despairing.
~ John S. Dunne Read more [...]
A Word to the Wise — Extravagant
Extravagant [ik-strav-uh-guh nt]
After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions Read more [...]
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. ~ Marcus Aurelius
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ~ Albert Einstein
Cross Reference: Lk. Read more [...]
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Dear God,
I am Amearican.
What are you?
Robert
~ from Dear God: Children's Letters to God, David Heller, Ph.D. Read more [...]
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more [...]
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Prophets from Amos and Isaiah to Gandhi and King have shown how frequently compassion demands confrontation. Love without criticism is a kind of betrayal. Lying is done with silence as well as words.
William Sloane Coffin Read more [...]
Prelude for a Meditator
Mindbe still.Thoughtslet go of, let fallaway.Facethe blind beggar’sat night orthe flower baskingin the light.Eyesshut softlyor shyly castdown.Wordswithhold.Dissolve like a lozengeon the tongue.No more.Voicego quiet as sand.Breatheuntil it becomes Read more [...]
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What we would like to do is change the world--make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights Read more [...]