As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults.
Far too often, communities lack the resources or the commitment to invest adequately in their public schools. We need to understand that quality education for every single person in our society is essential to our future. from A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends
High moral and ethical standards are essential, and they don't change from one job to another, or from one level of authority to another. Honesty, truthfulness, integrity, unselfishness--these are always there. And whenever a leader violates these basic principles,...
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction...
In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
The invitation to work for social justice is one of the essential, nonnegotiable pillars within Christian spirituality... Social justice has to do with changing the way the world is organized so as to make a level playing field for everyone. In simple terms this means...
The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life. Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence in order to touch others. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. God is always waiting...
At such a moment, hesitancy in speaking out faithfully on behalf of the good news of Jesus is inexcusable. There are...issues thrown at Christians today, and the world is both owed an answer and is actually waiting for the answer that only the church can give—even if...
If Christians worshiped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship... Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship. When we obey the command to praise God in worship, our deep,...
In essence, adaptive capacity is applied creativity. It is the ability to look at a problem or crisis and see an array of unconventional solutions. Adaptive capacity includes the quality Keats found essential to the genius of Shakespeare--negative capability. This...