“God is making room in my heart for compassion: the awareness that where my life begins is where your life begins; the awareness that … your needs cannot be separated from … my needs; the awareness that the joys of my heart are never mine alone—nor are my sorrows. I struggle against the work of God in my heart; I want to be let alone. I want my boundaries to remain fixed, that I may be at rest. But even now, as I turn to [God] in the quietness, [God’s] work in me is ever the same… God is at work enlarging the boundaries of my heart.” – Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1953, 1981), 49
Category: Quotes
“I’m frustrated and sad to think of all the good people who have abandoned Christianity because they felt they had to choose between their faith and their intellectual integrity or between their religion and their compassion.” – Rachel Held Evans, from Faith Unraveled, previously titled Evolving in Monkey Town
“I tire so of hearing people say, /Let things take their course. /Tomorrow is another day. /I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. /I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.” – Langston Hughes, “Democracy”
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle
It’s just a Wendell Berry kind of day…
“Listen to carrion – put your ear / close, and hear the faint chattering / of the songs that are to come.” – Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”
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