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You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.
Dr. Dennis Anderson
"Hope" is the thing
with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune
without the words –
And never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Oldschool
11-11-2008, 12:09 PM
Proverb - “How wonderful, O Lord, are the works of your hands, the sun and the stars, the valleys and the hills, the rivers and lakes all disclose your presence. The beasts of the field, the birds of the air bespeak your wondrous will. In your goodness you have made us able to hear the music of the world, a divine voice sings through all creations.”
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
- Marian Wright Edelman,
Families in Peril
t is not only the freedom of the oppressed that is at stake ... but also the liberation of the oppressor.
- Allan Boesak,
South African minister
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
-Samuel Johnson Submitted By Lifthimup
It is no wonder that just the touch of another human being at a dark time can be enough to save the day.
- Frederick Buechner,
Beyond Words
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
- Abigail Adams
to her husband, John Adams, in Letters of Mrs. Adams.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
- Plato
Never At Peace
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"We will never be at peace with the nations next to us
until we are at peace with the person who sleeps next to us."
Prayer is an attitude toward life that sees everything as ultimately sacred, everything as potentially life-changing, everything as revelatory of life’s meaning. It is our link between dailiness and eternity.
- Joan Chittister
Action is the antidote to despair.
- Joan Baez,
Singer, songwriter, and activist.
You are not here to verify,
instruct yourself, or inform curiosity or carry report.
You are here to kneel
where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than
an order of words,
the conscious occupation
of the praying mind,
or the sound of the voice praying.
- T.S. Eliot
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
- Dorothy Day,
The Long Loneliness
Lead me from death to life,
from falsehood to truth.
Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust.
Lead me from hate to love,
from war to peace.
Let peace fill our hearts,
our world, our universe.
Peace, peace, peace.
- Satish Kumar
I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
- Mother Teresa
Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past.
-Landrum Bolling
Oldschool
12-11-2008, 10:54 PM
Unknown - “Forgiveness goes with repentance.”
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes ... and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
German pastor and philosopher (1906-1945) imprisoned and executed for his attempt to overthrow Adolf Hitler.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
-William Shakespeare
What kind of peace do we seek? ... Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children -- not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women, not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.
- John F. Kennedy,
American University speech, June 10, 1963.
Merry Nativity
Posted December 25th @ 12:01 am by Steven Koster
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things came into being through him,
and without him not one thing came into being.
What has come into being in him was life,
and the life was the light of all people.
The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not overcome it.
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and the world came into being through him;
yet the world did not know him.
He came to what was his own,
and his own people did not accept him.
But to all who received him, who believed in his name,
he gave power to become children of God,
who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh
or of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word became flesh and lived among us,
and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son,
full of grace and truth.
—John 1:1-5, 9-14, NRSV
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
- Stephen Jay Gould, American evolutionary biologist (1941-2002)
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