“A man had not yet given up everything for God as long as he holds on to the moneybag of his own opinions.” – Francis of Assisi
Category: Christianity
“To pray and actually mean “Thy Kingdom come,” we must also be able to say “my kingdoms go.” – Fr. Richard Rohr
“Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the man I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him. And to be unknown of God is altogether too much privacy.” —Thomas Merton
“If now isn’t a good time for the truth, I don’t see when we’ll get to it.” – Nikki Giovanni
“Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.” – Rep. John Lewis
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