The Common Good

Verse And Voice

Verse of the Day: Perseverance

But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act they will be blessed in their doing.

-James 1:25

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Verse of the Day: Reconciliation

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.

- 2 Corinthians 5:18-19

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Voice of the Day: Frederick Buechner

We hunger to be known and understood. We hunger to be loved. We hunger to be at peace inside our own skins. We hunger not just to be fed these things but, often without realizing it, we hunger to feed others these things because they too are starving for them. We hunger not just to be loved but to love, not just to be forgiven but to forgive, not just to be known and understood for all the good times and bad times that for better for worse have made us who we are, but to know and understand [...]

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Verse of the Day: Freely Give

Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment.
- Matthew 10:8
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Voice of the Day: Arturo Paoli

The ones to trust are the ones who give not just their money, but their person, those who give their lives for their neighbor.

- Arturo Paoli

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Verse of the Day: Judgement Upon the Wicked and the Righteous

Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well. I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work. I said in my heart with regard to human beings that God is testing them to show that they are but animals.

- Ecclesiastes 3:16-18

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Voice of the Day: Thich Nhat Hanh

To me, practicing mindfulness in the act of consuming is the basic act of social justice.


- Thich Nhat Hanh

Interview by Catherine Ingram, In the Footsteps of Ghandi.
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Verse of the Day: Humility

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, "Give this person your place,' and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, "Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the [...]

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Voice of the Day: Jean Mabillon

The spirit in which Scriptures should be read: search first to know God and the mysteries of our religion, and to know oneself; and to understand the ways to travel to God, and how to make good use of creatures. In a word: seek in this reading only truth and justice and the practice of charity and other virtues. The particular qualities needed are purity of heart, humility, simplicity, control of curiosity, and enthusiasm.

- Jean Mabillon

Treatise on the Studies of Monks [...]

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Verse of the Day: Forgiveness

Forgive the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have pardoned this people, from Egypt even until now.

- Numbers 14:19

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