The Common Good

Verse And Voice

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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Verse of the Day: Pursuing Righteousness Rather than Riches

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

But as for you, follower of God, shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

- 1 Timothy 6:9-11

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Voice of the Day: Jelalludin Rumi

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.
Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings.
Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

- Jelalludin Rumi
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Verse of the Day: Faithfulness and Righteousness

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other. Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.

- Psalms 85:10-11

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Voice of the Day: Vandana Shiva

Through everyday actions, on everyday issues, we are creating living economies, living democracies, and living cultures. Diversity alliances, cooperation, and persistence are our strengths. Service, support, and solidarity are our means. Justice, human freedom, dignity, and ecoligical survival are our ends.

- Vandana Shiva
Excerpt from "Earth Democracy: Justice Sustainability, and Peace."

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Verse of the Day: When the Poor and Needy are Thirsty

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

- Isaiah 41:17-18

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Voice of the Day: Mother Teresa

Every act of love is an act of peace, no matter how small.

- Mother Teresa

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Verse of the Day: "Great is the Lord!"

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

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: "A Stronghold in Times of Trouble"

[The Lord] judges the world with righteousness; [and] the peoples with equity. The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

- Psalms 9:8-10

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