Posted by God's Politics Editor 3 weeks 1 day ago
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.
- James 3:17
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 3 weeks 1 day ago
Lord, enable us today to see our neighbor in those whom the world rejects — the guilt-ridden, the foreigner, the unprotected, and the refugee. Open our eyes and make us present to these neighbors both in our various expressions of community and in the wider world. Amen.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 3 weeks 5 days ago
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
- Derrick Bell
From Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 3 weeks 5 days ago
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
- Matthew 5:5
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 3 weeks 5 days ago
Let the moments and the hours of this day reverberate with sounds of our singing, with the words of the psalm, and with the praises we offer to you, O Lord. Amen.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 3 weeks 6 days ago
Justice is not peripheral to God's story. Justice — in its various forms — is mentioned over 200 times in the Scriptures. It's not optional, it's central. Seek justice.
- Eugene Cho
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 3 weeks 6 days ago
Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.
- Mark 9:50
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 3 weeks 6 days ago
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is despair, let me sow hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. Amen.
A Prayer of St. Francis.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 18 hours ago
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 18 hours ago
Happy are those who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times.
- Psalm 106:3
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 18 hours ago
Loving God, we pray for the leaders of denominations and churches. May we support them in love and truth as they advocate for the least of these among us. Amen.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 1 day ago
Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 1 day ago
God, be with the first responders in Oklahoma, and may all in the communities and families be touched by your restorative will and strength.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 2 days ago
Today, and it breaks my heart to say it, finding a homeless person who has died of cold, is not news. Today, the news is scandals, that is news, but the many children who don't have food — that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.
- Pope Francis
in unscripted comments answering questions at a huge international gathering of Catholic associations in St. Peter's Square.
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 2 days ago
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for [God] gives sleep to [God's] beloved.
- Psalm 127:1-2
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 2 days ago
God of life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and wear us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, we beseech you; turn our eyes to where the skies are full of promise. Amen
Adapted from a prayer by St. Augustine
Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 5 days ago
In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.
- Jane Addams
From Twenty Years at Hull House
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 5 days ago
Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
- Micah 7:8
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 5 days ago
Lord of peace and reconciliation, we lift up those who are hurting in our cities. Comfort those who mourn from experiencing too much violence and sin. May we, as your church have the wisdom and discernment to reach out to areas of need, to be in relationship with our neighbors, and to love the cities around us and the people who fill them. Amen.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 6 days ago
I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.
- Jessica Dovey
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 6 days ago
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain's. Through this he received approval as righteous, [with] God giving approval to his gifts; he died, but through his faith he still speaks.
- Hebrews 11:4
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 4 weeks 6 days ago
Merciful God, nothing can separate us from you. When the distance between you and us seems unbearable, help us to move closer to you, knowing that by your mercy you are never beyond our reach. Amen.
-From Common Prayer
Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 18 hours ago
Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work — hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss — loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.
- Jean Vanier
From Finding Peace
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 18 hours ago
But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.
- Philippians 3:20-21
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 18 hours ago
This is the day that you have made, O Lord. May we rejoice and show others the joy of our salvation! Let them know that we are your followers by the way we love them, especially the lowly, the poor and the marginalized. Amen.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 1 day ago
Christian hope frees us to act hopefully in the world. It enables us to act humbly and patiently, tackling visible injustices in the world around us without needing to be assured that our skill and our effort will somehow rid the world of injustice altogether. Christian hope, after all, does not need to see what it hopes for (Heb. 11:1); and neither does it require us to comprehend the end of history. Rather, it simply requires us to trust that even the most outwardly insignificant of faithful actions — the cup of cold water given to the child, the widow's mite offered at the temple, the act of hospitality shown to the stranger, none of which has any overall strategic socio-political significance so far as we can now see — will nevertheless be made to contribute in some significant way to the construction of God's kingdom by the action of God's creative and sovereign grace.
- Craig Gay
From Way of the (Modern) World
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 1 day ago
For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.
- Philippians 3:8-9
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 1 day ago
Lord, you did not withhold even your life for our benefit. If nothing is too much to offer you, remind us that nothing is too much to sacrifice for our brothers and sisters in need. Amen.
-From Common Prayer
Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 2 days ago
I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.
- C.S Lewis
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 2 days ago
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Render true judgements, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
- Zechariah 7:9-10
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 2 days ago
Lord, we thank you for changing seasons, and for being part of your creation that is full of rhythm and cycles. We pray for eyes to see and ears to hear the lessons you give to us through these periods of transition.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 5 days ago
[People] of our time believe that all the insanity and cruelty of our lives, the enormous wealth of few, the envious poverty of the majority, the wars and every form of violence, are perceived by nobody, and that nothing prevents us from continuing to live thus.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 5 days ago
But as for me, I will look to the Lord, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
- Micah 7:7
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 5 days ago
Dear God, help us to be tireless in testing the choices we make against their outcomes for people, especially the lowly and powerless. Thank you for sending Jesus to show us how to live a life in complete service of others. May we do likewise today. Amen.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 6 days ago
Praying scripture is not judged by how much you read but by the way in which you read. If you read quickly, it will benefit you little. You will be like a bee that merely skims the surface of a flower. Instead, in this new way of reading with prayer, you must become as the bee that penetrates into the depths of the flower. You plunge deeply within to remove its deepest nectar.
- Madame Guyon
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 6 days ago
In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
- Matthew 7:12
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 5 weeks 6 days ago
Good Shepherd, You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles. But please don't get tired of looking for me! I know You won't. For You have found me. All I have to do is stay found.
-A prayer by Thomas Merton from A Book of Hours
Posted by God's Politics Editor 6 weeks 18 hours ago
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples — students, apprentices, practitioners — of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence. Who passed today - Dallas Willard From The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail
Posted by God's Politics Editor 6 weeks 18 hours ago
Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.
- Psalm 82:3
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 6 weeks 18 hours ago
God, we pray this weekend for the women, girls, and boys who are trafficked. Give special discernment to the police and law enforcement so that they can effectively expose the perpetrators of sex trafficking. And for those rescued, we pray especially for healing. Amen.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 6 weeks 1 day ago
One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or other 'their blood cries to heaven,' and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony.
- Jacques Ellul
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 6 weeks 1 day ago
The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; [God] will rejoice over you with gladness, [God] will renew you in his love; [God] will exult over you with loud singing.
- Zephaniah 3:17
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 6 weeks 1 day ago
God, we pray today for unity of the church, that we may be of one mind. Help us to overcome our differences while celebrating the unique gifts and insights of each person, denomination and community. Amen.
Posted by God's Politics Editor 6 weeks 2 days ago
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 6 weeks 5 days ago
We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.
- Richard Foster
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 6 weeks 5 days ago
You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- Matthew 5:43-48
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Posted by God's Politics Editor 6 weeks 5 days ago
Like a tree planted by living water is the person who commits to your ways, O Lord. Nourish us with your disciplining love; prune our branches for growth. Teach us also to recognize good fruit and to recoil from the bitterness of the bad. Amen.
- Common Prayer
