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Thomas Keating

Sacrifice is absolutely essential for human growth; yet the abiding disposition of sacrifice is rarely established without some experience of suffering. Of course suffering itself does not make one holy and can even lead to despair. Despair is suffering that fails to teach. — Thomas Keating

Jonathan Tran

As Vicki Divoll, a former CIA lawyer who now teaches at the U.S. Naval Academy, observed, "People are a lot more comfortable with a Predator strike that kills many people than with a throat-slitting that kills one." — Jonathan Tran

David Whyte

Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief, turning downward through its black water to the place we cannot breathe, will never know the source from which we drink the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else. — David Whyte

Woody Guthrie

Yes, as through this world I've wandered, I've seen lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. And as through your life your travel, Yes, as through your life your roam, You won't never see an outlaw Drive a family from their home. — Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie

I mined in your mines, and I gathered in your corn. I been working, mister, since the day I was born. Now I worry all the time like I never did before, 'Cause I ain't got no home in this world anymore. Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see, This world is such a great and a funny place to be. Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor, And I ain't got no home in this world anymore. — Woody Guthrie

Stephen E. Fowl

Disciples are called to “live your lives in a manner worthy of the Gospel” [Philippians 1:27]. But this translation doesn’t capture the concreteness of Paul’s admonition.

The Greek word translated as “live your life” is politeuesthe, from polis, and is more accurately translated as “live your lives as citizens,” or better yet, “let your politics be worthy of the Gospel of Christ.” The word’s clear meaning has to do with living as a citizen, or managing civic affairs, or conducting one's self as pledged to some law of life.

Paul makes it very clear that the interests and aims of the church are different from and largely at variance to the interests and aims of the empire.

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Paulo Freire

We cannot say that in the process of revolution someone liberates someone else, nor yet that someone liberates him or herself, but rather that people in communion liberate each other. — Paulo Freire

Mark Nepo

To journey without being changed is to be a nomad To change without a journey is to be a chameleon To journey and be transfomed by the journey is to be a pilgrim — Mark Nepo

Robert Schreiter

In forgiving, we do not forget; we remember in a different way. — Robert Schreiter