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Voice of the Day: Frederick Douglass
I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.
- Frederick Douglass
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Voice of the Day: Mary John Mananzan
In the early Christian communities, the character of the Jesus movement found expression in the abolition of social distinctions of class, religion, race, and gender.
- Mary John Mananzan
Quoted in Cry Freedom, by Charles Ringma
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Verse of the Day: Justice and Righteousness
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
- Jeremiah 23:5-5
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Verse of the Day: By God's Loving Kindness
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
- Titus 5:3
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Verse of the Day: By God's Loving Kindness
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
- Titus 5:3
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Voice of the Day: Sage Bennett
You cannot love others and harbor resentments toward them at the same time. The love we are speaking of is not romantic love, but a spiritual love that views another through the eyes of compassion. Love produces a quality of life that is more enjoyable and healthy than a life with resentment and anger.
- Sage Bennett
from Wisdom Walk: Nine Practices for Creating Peace and Balance from the World's Spiritual Traditions
Verse of the Day: Perseverance
But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act they will be blessed in their doing.
-James 1:25
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Verse of the Day: Reconciliation
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.
- 2 Corinthians 5:18-19
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Voice of the Day: Frederick Buechner
We hunger to be known and understood. We hunger to be loved. We hunger to be at peace inside our own skins. We hunger not just to be fed these things but, often without realizing it, we hunger to feed others these things because they too are starving for them. We hunger not just to be loved but to love, not just to be forgiven but to forgive, not just to be known and understood for all the good times and bad times that for better for worse have made us who we are, but to know and understand [...]
Verse of the Day: Freely Give
Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment.
- Matthew 10:8
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Voice of the Day: Arturo Paoli
The ones to trust are the ones who give not just their money, but their person, those who give their lives for their neighbor.
- Arturo Paoli
Verse of the Day: Judgement Upon the Wicked and the Righteous
Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well. I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work. I said in my heart with regard to human beings that God is testing them to show that they are but animals.
- Ecclesiastes 3:16-18
Voice of the Day: Thich Nhat Hanh
To me, practicing mindfulness in the act of consuming is the basic act of social justice.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Interview by Catherine Ingram, In the Footsteps of Ghandi.
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Verse of the Day: Humility
"When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your host; and the host who invited both of you may come and say to you, "Give this person your place,' and then in disgrace you would start to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, "Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the [...]
Voice of the Day: Jean Mabillon
The spirit in which Scriptures should be read: search first to know God and the mysteries of our religion, and to know oneself; and to understand the ways to travel to God, and how to make good use of creatures. In a word: seek in this reading only truth and justice and the practice of charity and other virtues. The particular qualities needed are purity of heart, humility, simplicity, control of curiosity, and enthusiasm.
- Jean Mabillon
Treatise on the Studies of Monks [...]
Verse of the Day: Forgiveness
Forgive the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have pardoned this people, from Egypt even until now.
- Numbers 14:19
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Voice of the Day: Responding with Loving Humility
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, above all at the sight of human sin, and wonders whether to combat it by force or by humble love. Always decide 'I will combat it by humble love.' If you resolve on that once for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force: it is the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.
- Starets [Elder] Zosima from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jill Rauh: A Fox in the Hen House
Putting Robert Zoellick in charge of the World Bank, as that anti-poverty organization's board recently did at the U.S.'s behest, is a bit like making a power company lobbyist the Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality - oh, wait, we've already done that.
The problem with Zoellick is that he was formerly the U.S. Trade [...]
Verse of the Day: Refuge for the Poor
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord? There they shall be in great terror, for God is with the company of the righteous. You would confound the plans of the poor, but the Lord is their refuge.
- Psalms 14:4-6
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Voice of the Day: Segundo Galilea
We have all known persons who have lost everything and have not lost the joy of living; persons who are imprisoned unjustly and do not lose their peace and tranquility; persons who live in misery and take in orphans; persons who have suffered injustices and seek to reestablish justice with no desire to revenge.
- Segundo Galilea