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Verse of the Day: Trust and Wealth
If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence; if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much ... this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.
- Job 31:24-28
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Verse of the Day: "Called to Freedom"
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
- Galatians 5:13-14
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Voice of the Day: Declaration of Independence
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
- Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
Voice of the Day: Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
Verse of the Day: Oppresssion
You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 23:9
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Verse of the Day: Seeing and Believing
When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, "Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?' " Jesus had just then cured many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and had given sight to many who were blind. And he answered them, "Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them. And [...]
Voice of the Day: Saint Elizabeth the New Martyr
It is easier for a feeble straw to resist a mighty fire than for the nature of sin to resist the power of love. We must cultivate this love in our souls, that we may take our place with all the saints, for they were all-pleasing unto God through their love for their neighbor.
- Saint Elizabeth the New Martyr
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Verse of the Day: Who Will Stand Up and Repair the Wall?
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the alien without redress. And I sought for anyone among them who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
- Ezekiel 22:29-30
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Voice of the Day: Alan Boesak
Unity that is dictated by the powerful is not unity. Unity at the cost of the poor and the oppressed, at the cost of the integrity of the gospel, is not unity.
- Alan Boesak
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Verse of the Day: Pride
It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
- Proverbs 16:19
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Voice of the Day: Rene Padilla
The church has only two alternatives in its confrontation with the world: either it adapts itself to the world and betrays the gospel, or it responds to the gospel and enters into conflict with the world.
- Rene Padilla
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Voice of the Day: Elsa Tamez
The message of the good news is of the liberation of human beings from everything and everyone that keeps them enslaved.
- Elsa Tamez
Verse of the Day: Oppression
Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.
- Proverbs 22:16-16
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Voice of the Day: Ludovico Barbo
Without mental prayer, it would be virtually impossible for frail humanity to bear the fierce struggles of religious life. You can inebriate with sweetness your dryness of heart, making use of the water of prayer drawn from the fountains of the Savior. As a tree experiencing drought sheds its unripened fruit and leaves, so the soul that is deprived of the dew of prayer brings forth incomplete works infected with distaste.
- Ludovico Barbo
Form of Prayer Quoted in Essential Monastic [...]
Verse of the Day: Means to an End
The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right. But those who are noble plan noble things, and by noble things they stand.
- Isaiah 32:7-8
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Verse of the Day: Justice and Righteousness
Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to a king's son. May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. May the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness. May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.
- Psalms 72:1-4
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Voice of the Day: Mother Teresa
For not only do people need food, but they need also the touch of a hand, the sound of a voice. For food lasts but a day, but love is for always.
- Mother Teresa
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Verse of the Day: Caring for the Forgotten
When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be left for the alien, the orphan, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings.
- Deuteronomy 24:19-19
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Audio Interview: Alice Walker on 'Eating Oranges in the Astrodome'
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker talks to Sojourners associate editor Rose Marie Berger about Hurricane Katrina, bubble baths, and the art of remembering.
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Verse of the Day: Generosity from Poverty
[Jesus] sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny. Then he called his disciples and said to them, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live [...]