I rise today with the power of God to guide me,the might of God to uphold me,the wisdom of God to teach me,the eye of God to watch over me,the ear of God to hear me,the word of God to give me speech,the hand of God to protect me,the path of God to lie before me,the...
Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world.
The identifying characteristic which sets apart Jesus' genuine followers from the rest of the world is not wisdom, nor right theology, nor moral righteousness, nor social power; it is extraordinary love.
The idea that we live in something called "the environment" is utterly preposterous... The world that environs us, that is around us, is also within us. We are made of it; we eat, drink, and breathe it; it is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh.
Let us fall in love againand scatter gold dust all over the world.Let us become a new springand feel the breeze drift in the heaven’s scent.Let us dress the earth in green,and like the sap of a young treelet the grace from within sustain us.Let us carve gems out of...
No one in this world is pure and perfect. If you avoid people for their mistakes, you will be alone in this world.
We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red,...
It is a kind of theological folly to suppose that God has made the entire world just for human beings; or to suppose that God is interested in only one of the millions of species that inhabit God's good earth.
…when the time comes to enter the darkness in which we are naked and helpless and alone; in which we see the insufficiency of our greatest strength and the hollowness of our strongest virtue; in which we have nothing to rely on, and nothing in our nature to support...
Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room at all, Christ comes uninvited.