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Love the poor and love poverty, for it is by such love that we become truly poor. As the Scripture says, we become like the things we love. If you love the poor you will share their poverty and be poor like them. If you love the poor be often with them. Be glad to see them in your own home and to visit with them in theirs. Be glad to talk to them and be pleased to have them near you in church, on the street, and elsewhere. Be poor in conversing with them and speak to them as their companions do, but be rich in assisting them by sharing some of your more abundant goods with them. - Francis de Sales + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. - Matthew 11:29 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy ... It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong. - Robert James Brown + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. - Paul Hawken + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained. - Derrick Bell From Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. - Matthew 5:5 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another. - Mark 9:50 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Happy are those who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times. - Psalm 106:3 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Loving God, we pray for the leaders of denominations and churches. May we support them in love and truth as they advocate for the least of these among us. Amen.