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Voice of the Day: 'Turn my soul into a garden'
Teach me, Lord, to sing of your mercies. Turn my soul into a garden, where the flowers dance in the gentle breeze, praising you with their beauty. Let my soul be filled with beautiful virutes; let me be inspired by your Holy Spirit; let me praise you always.
Teresa of Avila
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Voice of the Day: Wright on Forgiveness
Genuine forgiveness is not an easily cultivated art. Especially when we have been gravely wounded by another person, our basic human dignity affronted, it is no simple task to forgive. Nor should it be done lightly. For we need also to recognize and affirm the anger, the pain, the betrayal, or the sense of injustice that we feel when genuinely hurt.
- Wendy M. Wright
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Verse of the Day: 'You deliever the weak from those too strong for them'
All my bones shall say, "O Lord, who is like you? You deliver the weak from those too strong for them, the weak and needy from those who despoil them."
- Psalm 35:10
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Voice of the Day: Crockett on Scripture
Scripture is taught so that persons may become formed and transformed into faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. The aim is for learners to claim the life of Jesus as their own and to embrace an identity in the fullness of their lives. But the formative and transformative processes must not ignore the cultural context through which identity emerges or faith is expressed. Culture is the container of a community's experience and the agent of the community's expressions of faithfulness and [...]
Verse of the Day: 'your eyes shall see your Teacher'
Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.
- Isaiah 30:20
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Verse of the Day: 'May the God of peace sanctify you'
May the God of peace sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:23-23
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Verse of the Day: 'the Lord of hosts is exalted by justice'
People are bowed down, everyone is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled. But the Lord of hosts is exalted by justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy by righteousness. Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins.
- Isaiah 5:15-17
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Voice of the Day: Help Those Who Are Weak
Helpers should be provided for those who are weak so that they will not find their work depressing. In fact, let all have help according to the size of the community and the nature of the place. The rest should serve one another in love.
- Rule of Benedict
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom: Writings on the Contemplative Life by Hugh Feiss.
Voice of the Day: Weil on Inflictions
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
Simone Weil
Waiting for [...]
Verse of the Day: 'The prayer of faith will save the sick'
The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.
- James 5:15
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Voice of the Day: On Holiness
Do not wish to be called holy before you are.
- Rule of Benedict
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom: Writings on the Contemplative Life by Hugh Feiss.
Verse of the Day: Share With the Needy
Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.
- Ephesians 4:28-28
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Verse of the Day: Execute Justice
O house of David! Thus says the Lord: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed, or else my wrath will go forth like fire, and burn, with no one to quench it, because of your evil doings.
- Jeremiah 21:12-12
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Voice of the Day: 'The time is ripe'
There are lots of different people saying lots of different things, and some of them put us off with their craziness and there are lots of points to argue with them about, but at their best they seem to be acting out of a single profound impulse, which is best described with words like tolerance, compassion, sanity, hope, justice. It is an impulse that has always been part of the human heart, but it seems to be welling up into the world with new power in our age now even as the forces of [...]
Voice of the Day: Merton on Reading the Bible
Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned
scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of
professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically
involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.
- Thomas Merton
Opening the Bible
Video: Jim Wallis and the Evangelical Electorate on CBS
On the eve of his dialoge with the Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land at the Family Research Council's Values Voters Summit, Jim appeared on CBS News with Katie Couric last night to talk about changes in evangelical political engagement.
Verse of the Day: 'Our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh'
Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
- Ephesians 6:11-12
Voice of the Day: Bede Bede on Entry into the Kingdom
We take pride in our almost unique and wide-ranging learning, as if there were not many people much more learned than we whom we do not want to despise us. We enjoy ridiculing those who are less educated than we and make no effort to remember that entry into the kingdom lies open not for those who only learn the mysteries of faith and the commands of the Creator by meditating on them, but for those who put into practice the things they have learned.
- Bede Bede
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Voice of the Day: Frederick Buechner Hears Voices
When somebody speaks to you, you turn your face to look in the direction the voice comes from; but if the voice comes from no direction at all, if the voice comes from within and comes wordlessly, and more powerfully for being wordless, then in a sense you stop looking for anything at all. Your eyes become unseeing, and if someone were to pass a hand in front of them, you would hardly notice the hand. If you can be said to be looking at anything then, you are probably looking at, without really [...]
Verse of the Day: 'I will grant peace in the land'
And I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid; I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword shall go through your land.
- Leviticus 26:6
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