The Common Good

Verse And Voice

Voice of the Day: Take a Wider View

by Administrator 09-28-2007

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here.

- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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Verse of the Day: Grant Justice

by Administrator 09-27-2007

Give counsel, grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive; let the outcasts of Moab settle among you; be a refuge to them from the destroyer.

- Isaiah 16:3-4

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Voice of the Day: 'Repent and believe in the gospel'

by Administrator 09-26-2007

Repent and believe in the gospel, Jesus says. Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.

- Frederick Buechner
from Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

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Verse of the Day: 'The effect of righteousness will be peace'

by Administrator 09-25-2007

The effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.

- Isaiah 32:17-17

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Verse of the Day: 'Be of the Same Mind'

by Administrator 09-24-2007

If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

- Philippians 2:1-2

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Voice of the Day: Learning to Love Our Enemy

by Administrator 09-24-2007

How do we learn to love our enemy? By seeing him as a brother who is tempted as we are, and attacked by the same real enemy which is the spirit of hatred and of "Antichrist." This same enemy seeks to destroy us both by pitting us against one another.

- Thomas Merton
from Passion For Peace

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Verse of the Day: 'By justice a king gives stability'

by Administrator 09-21-2007

By justice a king gives stability to the land, but one who makes heavy exactions ruins it.
- Proverbs 29:4-4

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Verse of the Day: God of Peace

by Administrator 09-20-2007

For God is a God not of disorder but of peace.

- 1 Corinthians [...]

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Verse of the Day: You Shall Purse Justice

by Administrator 09-19-2007

Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, so that you may live and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

-Deuteronomy [...]
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Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton on Nonviolence

by Administrator 09-18-2007

Very often people object that nonviolence seems to imply passive acceptance of injustice and evil and therefore that it is a kind of cooperation with evil. Not at all. The genuine concept of nonviolence implies not only active and effective resistance to evil but in fact a more effective resistance... But the resistance which is taught in the Gospel is aimed not at the evil-doer but at evil in its source.

- Thomas Merton
from Passion For Peace

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