Verse And Voice

Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love [God]? But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court?

- James 2:5-6

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With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord; I will praise [God] in the midst of the throng. For [the Lord] stands at the right hand of the needy, to save them from those who would condemn them to death.

- Psalms 109:30-31

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Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears [their] grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge - from which new sorrorws will be born for others - then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.

- Etty Hillesum
quoted in Marc Ellis, "Toward [...]

If we live, we live in the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For this end Christ died and lived again, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. Why then do you pass judgment on your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

- Romans 14:8-10