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Verse And Voice

Verse of the Day: "Let the Earth Rejoice"

by Administrator 01-29-2007

The Lord is king! Let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

- Psalms 97:1-2

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Verse of the Day: "Let the Earth Rejoice"

by Administrator 01-29-2007

The Lord is king! Let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

- Psalms 97:1-2

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Voice of the Day: James Baldwin

by Administrator 01-29-2007

[T]his is the crime of which I assuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.

- James Baldwin
from The Fire Next Time

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Verse of the Day: Rejoicing in the Lord

by Administrator 01-26-2007

May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, "Great is the Lord!" As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God.

Psalms 40:16-17

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Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton

by Administrator 01-26-2007

The big question, however, is the validity of the protest as communication. Is the current protest making any real headway in re-educating us, in giving us a new attitude toward war? Or is it simply an outlet for the indignation, the frustration and the anxiety of those who see that the war is irrational, but fear they can do nothing to stop it?

-Thomas Merton

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Verse of the Day: The Poor and Needy

by Administrator 01-25-2007

Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, "Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land."

- Deuteronomy 15:11-11

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Voice of the Day: Nelson Mandela

by Administrator 01-25-2007

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, and humility.

- Nelson Mandela

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Verse of the Day: Faith and Works

by Administrator 01-24-2007

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

- James 2:14-17

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Voice of the Day: Jelalludin Rumi

by Administrator 01-24-2007

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

- Jelalludin Rumi

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Verse of the Day: "Entering the Kingdom of God"

by Administrator 01-23-2007

Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" He replied, "What is impossible for mortals is possible for God."

- Luke 18:24-27

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