When the economy is geared to the arming of the heavens rather than the development of the heart, neighbors and nations must learn to cry out their dissatisfaction together.
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Charles Elliott
[T]he demand for radical love of God is indistinguishable from the radical love of those who have no claim on us. So prayer comes to focus on that vortex: where freedom to give and receive the abundance of God’s love spills over into, comprehends, includes, becomes the essence of the splendour of love of the vulnerable and the dispossessed.
Willa Cather
Where there is great love there are always miracles. — Willa Cather
Douglas John Hall
The object of redemption is not that we should be rescued from the world, but that we should be rescued for it. For life!
Lucinda Williams
Oh, Lord, I’ve made you a place in my heart, and I hope now you’ll leave it alone.
William Willimon
Only when we are lured out of ourselves, attached to something greater, are we moved to righteousness.
Daniel Berrigan
To be healed is a prelude to becoming a healer.
Mother Teresa
The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service.
Meister Eckhart
Even if a man were in rapture like St. Paul and knew of one who was in need of food he would do better by feeding that person than by remaining in ecstasy.
St. Augustine
We imitate whom we adore.