One great reason why the rich, in general, have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is, that according to the common observation, one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know because...
Imagine our homes and families when love is the way.Imagine neighborhoods and communities when love is the way.Imagine our governments and nations when love is the way.Imagine business and commerce when love is the way.Imagine this tired, old world when love is the way.
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find...
If you want to, you can find a million reasons to hate life and be angry at the world. Or, if you want to, you can find a million reasons to love life and be happy. Choose wisely.
The world is complex and facing staggering problems. It needs Christians who are up to the task of making a constructive contribution, intellectually ready for the challenges that humanity faces, deeply motivated to love God and neighbor with all our minds. from After...
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.
We must be the ones that invest in abandoned places. In abandoned people. Because when the world says that there is no future there, we are the ones who know better. We believe in a God that restores.
When we limit our understanding of stewardship as pertaining only to money we fail to comprehend the full impact of its true power to change not only us, but the world.
This beautiful prayer [from John 17] for union is from Jesus’ Last Supper address to his disciples. It might be the highest level of mystical teaching in the entire New Testament. Here Jesus connects everything: he in his Father, the Father in you, you in God, God in...