The facts of this world seen clearly Are seen through tears Why tell me then there is something wrong with my eyes? — Margaret Atwood
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Glenn Tinder
The price of a moral posture without personal risk: “It is hard to know, even in one's own case, whether a commitment that costs nothing has any substance. . . . Deploring the poverty of the common people in Asia and Africa is for most of us morally invigorating and at the same time agreeably inexpensive.” — Glenn Tinder
Parker Palmer
It is important to live life from the inside out, not the other way around. That is to say, live your own life, not simply imitating your heroes or other noble imagine. — Parker Palmer
Parker Palmer
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. — Parker Palmer
Parker Palmer
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. Of course, the voice we listen for is not “out there,” it is “in here,” calling me to fulfill the selfhood given me at birth by God. Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, “In the coming world, they will not ask me: ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me: ‘Why were you not Zusya?’” — Parker Palmer
Marian Wright Edelman
Asked why she wrote Guide My Feet: This book kind of wrote itself. I started off trying to write a policy book, and while prayer has been an integral part of my life without which I couldn’t survive, it would never have occurred to me to pray out loud or to write a book about prayer and meditations. But, you know, as I sat down to try to write chapters to respond or struggle with Dr. King’s question in his last book—where do we go from here, chaos of community?—I got terrible writer’s cramp and I would find prayers and meditations tumbling out, and so I just let go and let come out what will, and the result is this. I think it reflects my own worry about the spiritual famine in our country.
Carl Sandburg
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. — Carl Sandburg
Jürgen Moltmann
Reading the Bible with the eyes of the poor is a different thing from reading it with a full belly. If it is read in the light of the experience and hopes of the oppressed, the Bible’s revolutionary themes—promise, exodus, resurrection and spirit—come alive.
President Abraham Lincoln
We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel [civil] war is nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood. . . . It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless. — President Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln
The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. — President Abraham Lincoln