Life is short. And we do not have too much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. So, be swift to love, and make haste to be kind. — Henri Amiel
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Frederick Buechner
Maybe more than anything else, to be a saint is to know joy. Not happiness that comes and goes with the moments that occasion it, but joy that is always there like an underground spring no matter how dark and terrible the night. To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full. — Frederick Buechner
William Bryant Logan
Hospitality is the fundamental virtue of the soil. It makes room. It shares. It neutralizes poisons. And so it heals. This is what the soil teaches: If you want to be remembered, give yourself away. — William Bryant Logan
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
Read more ›Nicholas Kristof
For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year [2012], about 25 veterans are dying by their own hands. — Nicholas Kristof
Thomas Merton
The Gospel is handed down from generation to generation but it must reach each one of us brand new, or not at all. If it is merely "tradition" and not news, it has not been preached or not heard—it is not Gospel. . . . If there is no risk in revelation, if there is no fear in it, if there is no challenge in it, if it is not a word which creates whole new worlds, and new beings, if it does not call into existence a new creature, our new self, then religion is dead and God is dead. — Thomas Merton
Gordon Cosby
The word of the Lord is penetrating and confronting and disturbing, always coming into the order of selfishness from the realm of God's own being. The way we have organized our society is fundamentally different from the way in which God conceives it, and the way in which God's own being longs for it to be ordered.
Read more ›Kris Kristofferson
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. — Kris Kristofferson
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, referencing the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal
You know, you bring your gods; we'll bring ours. We'll see whose God answers the prayers and brings fire from heaven. That's kind of where I'm praying: that there will be fire from heaven, and we'll see it clearly, and everyone else will too. — Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, referencing the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal
Anthony de Mello
To find the kingdom is the easiest thing in the world but also the most difficult. Easy because it is all around you and within you, and all you have to do is reach out and take possession of it. Difficult because if you wish to possess the kingdom you may possess nothing else. — Anthony de Mello