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Voice of the Day: Mohandas Gandhi
05-13-2009
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Prayer of the Day: New Horizons Initiative
05-13-2009
Pray for the New Horizons Initiative, Inc. and Teddy Warria as they help to empower Kenyans to obtain higher education.
Verse of the Day: 'Destruction and violence are before me'
05-13-2009
Why do you make me see
wrongdoing and look at trouble?
Destruction and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
So the law becomes slack
wrongdoing and look at trouble?
Destruction and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
So the law becomes slack
Voice of the Day: Nelson Mandela
05-12-2009
To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Prayer of the Day: Justice for Africa
05-12-2009
Pray for justice for Africa, the world's poorest continent, where one in three people are malnourished, and for the 80 percent of people there that live on less than $2 a day.
Verse of the Day: 'Rejoice in hope'
05-12-2009
Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer.
- Romans 12:12
Verse of the Day: 'Cease your evictions of my people'
05-11-2009
Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.
Voice of the Day: Rosa Parks
05-11-2009
I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving in.
- Rosa Parks
Verse of the Day: 'Not peace, but a sword'
05-08-2009
Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.
Voice of the Day: Robert McAfee Brown
05-08-2009
Reversal is the order of the day in the kingdom of God.
- Robert McAfee Brown
Voice of the Day: Vaclav Havel
05-07-2009
When a person tries to act in accordance with his [or her] conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it
Verse of the Day: 'Give liberally'
05-07-2009
Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
- Deuteronomy 15:10
Voice of the Day: Dorothee S
05-06-2009
Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.
Verse of the Day: 'We do not wage war according to human standards'
05-06-2009
Indeed, we live as human beings, but we do not wage war according to human standards; for the weapons of our warfare are not merely human, but they have divine power to destro
Verse of the Day: Luke 3:2-6
05-05-2009
The word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
Voice of the Day: Thich Nhat Hanh
05-05-2009
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone, will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Verse of the Day: 'You will find rest for your souls'
05-04-2009
Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.
Verse of the Day: 'When the earth totters'
04-24-2009
We give thanks to you, O God;
we give thanks; your name is near.
People tell of your wondrous deeds.
we give thanks; your name is near.
People tell of your wondrous deeds.
Voice of the Day: Desmond Tutu
04-24-2009
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation -- we must act on these principles.
- Desmond Tutu