The Common Good

Verse And Voice

Voice of the Day: Elder Joseph the Hesychast

The helping of others, the giving of alms, and all external goods don't calm the arrogance of the heart. Humility of the mind, the pain of repentence and the breaking of the will, however, humble the proud spirit.

-Elder Joseph the Hesychast

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Voice of the Day Howard Thurman

Whatever may be the tensions
and the stresses of a particular day,
there is always lurking close at hand
the trailing beauty
of forgotten joy
or unremembered peace.

- Howard Thurman
from Meditations of the Heart.

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Verse of the Day: Anger and Judgement

You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, "You shall not murder"; and "whoever murders shall be liable to judgment." But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council; and if you say, "You fool," you will be liable to the hell of fire.

- Matthew 5:21-22

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Voice of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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Verse of the Day: 'Remember the Poor'

For [God] who worked through Peter making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me in sending me to the Gentiles, and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do.

- Galatians [...]

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Voice of the Day: Wendell Berry

...[W]hatever we do counts. If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

- Wendell Berry
excerpt from Wendell Berry's essay "Two Economies."

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Verse of the Day: Justice and Righteousness

Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn one who is righteous and mighty, who says to a king, "You scoundrel!" and to princes, "You wicked men!"; who shows no partiality to nobles, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of [God's] hands?

- Job 34:17-19

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Voice of the Day: Henry David Thoreau

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

- Henry David Thoreau

Source: "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau.

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Verse of the Day: Seek and Rejoice in the Lord

Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation say evermore, "God is great!" But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay!

- Psalms 70:4-5

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Voice of the Day: Alvin Alexi Currier

Because Jesus' teachings are so challenging and radical, it is much more comfortable to focus on a quiet, private, personal relationship with him than it is to follow his teachings that call for a public prophetic witness.

- Alvin Alexi Currier

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