You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’
But I say to you, do not resist him who is evil; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any one wants to sue you, and take your shirt, let him have your coat also. And whoever shall force you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you. You have heard it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you in order that you may be sons of your father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and unrighteous.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? do not even the tax-gatherers do the same. And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others. Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”—- From the Sermon on the Mount, Gospel of Matthew
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.”
—- Paul, Phil. 2:3—————–
Man (sic) is born broken.
He lives by mending.
The grace of God is the glue.
—– Eugene O’Neill————-
Therefore, putting aside all malice and guile and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn bbes, long for the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.”
—- 1 Peter 2: 1-3———-
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.”
—- Henri Nouwen————–
“What we would like to do is change the world — make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And to a certain extent, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute — the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in other words — we can to a certain extent change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world.”
—- Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day
————Christian belief contends that God is knowable, because he has made himself known, and especially in Jesus Christ, as an essentially personal and active deity. But we know him, as the writer of Genesis was enable to know him, as one who sets the limits to our capacity to tie him down to the measures of the human mind. We can know him only as the one who cannot be subjected to the general criteria of human knowing, whether that knowing be ancient myth or modern philosophy and science. The doctrine of revelation . . . is designed to give an account of God’s unique knowability, the knowability of one who gives himself to be known as the one that he is, and yet at the same time sets definite limits to human probing of that reality.”
—- Theologian Colin E. Gunton, The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine
—————–“This is pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
—- James 1: 27
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“What use is it, my brethren, if a man says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,’ and yet you do not given them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being by itself.”
—- James 2: 14-18
——————-“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.”
—- 2 Corinthians 1: 3-5Advertisement
