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Verse of the Day: 'those who counsel peace have joy'
Deceit is in the mind of those who plan evil, but those who counsel peace have joy.
- Proverbs 12:20-20
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Verse of the Day: The Kingdom of God
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 14:17-17
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Voice of the Day: Nussbaum on Trust and Community
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
- Martha Nussbaum
O Magazine, November [...]
Voice of the Day: 'Put your brokenness under the blessing'
The great mystery of God's love is that we are not asked to live as if we are not hurting, as if we are not broken. In fact, we are invited to recognize our brokenness as a brokenness in which we can come in touch with the unique way that God loves us. The great invitation is to live your brokenness under the blessing. I cannot take people's brokenness away and people cannot take my brokenness away. But how do you live in your brokenness? Do you live your brokenness under the blessing or under [...]
Verse of the Day: 'Maintain justice, and do what is right'
Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.
- Isaiah 56:1-1
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Voice of the Day: Sayers on Diversity
In modern memoirs written by real people about another real person we would expect just that sort of diversity which we find in the Gospels. If it surprises us there, it is perhaps because we have fallen out of the habit of looking on Jesus and his disciples as really real people.
- Dorothy Sayers
Introduction to The Man Born to Be King
Verse of the Day: 'May grace and peace be yours'
May grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
- 2 Peter 3:14-14
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Daily Verse: 'May the God of hope fill you with all joy'
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 15:13-13
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Voice of the Day: Take a Wider View
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here.
- Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Verse of the Day: Grant Justice
Give counsel, grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive; let the outcasts of Moab settle among you; be a refuge to them from the destroyer.
- Isaiah 16:3-4
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Voice of the Day: 'Repent and believe in the gospel'
Repent and believe in the gospel, Jesus says. Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.
- Frederick Buechner
from Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
Verse of the Day: 'The effect of righteousness will be peace'
The effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
- Isaiah 32:17-17
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Verse of the Day: 'Be of the Same Mind'
If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
- Philippians 2:1-2
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Voice of the Day: Learning to Love Our Enemy
How do we learn to love our enemy? By seeing him as a brother who is tempted as we are, and attacked by the same real enemy which is the spirit of hatred and of "Antichrist." This same enemy seeks to destroy us both by pitting us against one another.
- Thomas Merton
from Passion For Peace
Verse of the Day: 'By justice a king gives stability'
By justice a king gives stability to the land, but one who makes heavy exactions ruins it.
- Proverbs 29:4-4
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Verse of the Day: God of Peace
For God is a God not of disorder but of peace.
- 1 Corinthians [...]
Verse of the Day: You Shall Purse Justice
-Deuteronomy [...]
Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton on Nonviolence
Very often people object that nonviolence seems to imply passive acceptance of injustice and evil and therefore that it is a kind of cooperation with evil. Not at all. The genuine concept of nonviolence implies not only active and effective resistance to evil but in fact a more effective resistance... But the resistance which is taught in the Gospel is aimed not at the evil-doer but at evil in its source.
- Thomas Merton
from Passion For Peace
Verse of the Day: The Kingdom of God
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 14:17
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Voice of the Day: Joan Chittister on Hospitality
To practice hospitality in our world, it may be necessary to evaluate all the laws and all the promotions and all the invitation lists of corporate and political society from the point of view of the people who never make the lists. Then hospitality may demand that we work to change things.
- Joan Chittister
from Wisdom Distilled from the Daily