“Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” (Jeremiah 29:7)
All in Community
“Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” (Jeremiah 29:7)
“One doesn’t ask of one who suffers: ‘What is your country and what is your religion?’ One merely says, ‘you suffer, this is enough for me, you belong to me and I shall help you.”
–Louis Pasteur
We are one.
I come as a bud
and reach full blossom.
–Zelley Rainey Orr
“Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me”
–Zora Neale Hurston
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)
“Justice is what love looks like in public.”
–Cornel West
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
–Wendell Berry
“Liturgical time is poetic time, oriented towards process rather than productivity.”
–Kathleen Norris
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”
–Fannie Lou Hamer
“The person in love with their vision of community will destroy community. The person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.”
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What is the opposite of road?
I’d say the answer is abode.
–Richard Wilbur
“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.”
–Mother Teresa