The Common Good

Verse And Voice

Verse of the Day: Neighbors in Need

by Administrator 01-09-2007

If there is among you anyone in need ... do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor. You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be.

- Deuteronomy 15:7-8
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Voice of the Day: Monika K. Hellwig

by Administrator 01-09-2007

What made the teaching of Jesus different and apparently so hard to accept then as now, was that it required a critical reassessment of the structures and values and attitudes of human society as his listeners and followers shared in it.

- Monika K. Hellwig
from Jesus: The Compassion of God (The Liturgical Press, 1983)

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Verse of the Day: Servants of the Lord

by Administrator 01-08-2007

But as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute.

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Voice of the Day: Louis Brandeis

by Administrator 01-08-2007

There is in most Americans some spark of idealism, which can be fanned into a flame. It takes sometimes a divining rod to find what it is; but when found, and that means often, when disclosed to the owners, the results are often extraordinary.

-Louis Brandeis

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Verse of the Day: Remission of Debts

by Administrator 01-05-2007

Every seventh year you shall grant a remission of debts. And this is the manner of the remission: every creditor shall remit the claim that is held against a neighbor, not exacting it of a neighbor who is a member of the community, because the Lord's remission has been proclaimed.

- Deuteronomy 15:1-2

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Voice of the Day: Rafael Correa

by Administrator 01-05-2007

If our moral duty to provide health, education and housing to our people impedes us from paying debt, we won't hesitate two seconds.

- Rafael Correa, recently elected president of Ecuador (Source: Bloomberg)


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Verse of the Day: 'The bond of peace'

by Administrator 01-04-2007

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

- Ephesians 4:1-3

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Voice of the Day: Saint Therese of Lisieux

by Administrator 01-04-2007

Yes, I have believed for a long time that the Lord is more tender than a mother, and I have known more than one maternal heart.

- Saint Therese of Lisieux

from "The Little Way for Every Day: Thoughts from Therese of Lisieux"

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Voice of the Day: Louis Brandeis

by Administrator 01-03-2007

In frank expression of conflicting opinion lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action; and in suppression lies ordinarily the greatest peril.

- Louis Brandeis, from his opinion in the 1920 Supreme Court case Gilbert v. Minnesota

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Verse of the Day: Only One Judge

by Administrator 01-02-2007

There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. So who, then, are you to judge your neighbor?

- James 4:12-12

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