We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.
04185 – Anybody Reading Us?
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04177 – Freedom vs. Tyranny
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
04171 – Churches and God’s Banquets
The Church is God saying, "I'm throwing a banquet, and all the mismatched, messed-up people are invited. Here, have some wine."
04169 – Colossal Misunderstanding
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being...
04158 – Don’t be Cruel
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
04140 – Some People…
Some people are so heavenly-minded that they are no earthly good.
04134 – Offended vs. Loving
When you find yourself being less offended and more loving toward people you will realize the love of Jesus has taken hold.
04089 – Just Love Them
The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.” from All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
04080 – Feeling Guilty?
Only good people feel guilty. Evil people rarely feel guilty. Only morally sensitive people struggle with the gap between who they are and who they know they ought to be.
04067 – Got Moral Authority to Speak?
It takes a great deal of arrogance to live in the U.S. with over 200 different sects of Christianity, all with their own unique theology, yet insist that only your sect has the moral authority to speak, not only for all Christians, but for all people in our country as...