[ More Quotes ] We cannot create knowledge without acting. The focus of this action is (a) to transform the world, (b) to establish interdependent relationships with human beings, with the cosmos and with God.     -- Paulo Friere Love Comes Back Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth!                -- Percy Byssbe Shelley (Today there) is a call to the human species to learn anew its rightful place among all other members of the total Earth community.     -- Jane Blewett Do What I Can If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.                   -- Emily Dickinson From its beginning the earth is a spiritual as well as a physical reality.                 -- Thomas Berry The Earth is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.                -- Thomas Berry It is no accident that we've been born in these times, that we find our lives unfolding now,with our particular histories and gifts, our brokenness, our experience, and our wisdom. It is not an accident.                           -- Miriam Therese MacGillis in "The Fate of the Earth" The human is the being in whom the earth has become spiritually aware, has awakened into consciousness, has become self-aware and self-reflecting. In the human, the earth begins to reflect on itself. In our deepest definition and deepest subjectivity, we humans are the earth.  Conscious.  You and I are the beings in whom the earth thinks... knows... comprehends... analyzes... rationalizes... judges... remembers... chooses...acts...decides.       -- Miriam Therese MacGillis in "The Fate of the Earth" The age of nations is past.  The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the earth.         -- Teilhard de Chardin We cannot create knowledge without acting. The focus of this action is (a) to transform the world, (b) to establish interdependent relationships with human beings, with the cosmos and with God.  -- Paulo Friere Faith makes all things possible, and love makes them easy. Faith in God is never out of season. Faith justifies the believer, but love justifies his faith by the works which it produces.  Faith believes God to be true; love proves faith to be true.                        -- Charles H. Spurgeon Faith sees God, and God sees faith. Faith sees God, who is invisible, and God sees even that little faith, which would be invisible to others. Faith's eye sees in the dark. It is God-given eye, and it is like the eye of God.    -- Charles H. Spurgeon Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your understanding:  in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.  -- Proverbs 3:5-6 How many are your works, O Lord!  In wisdom you made them all, the earth is full of your creatures.  There is the sea, vast and spacious teeming with creatures beyond number- living things both large and small.    -- Psalm 104:24-25 Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.   -- Meister Eckhart We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal right of men and women and of nations large and small....And for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors...have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.     -- Preamble, Charter of the United Nations. If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children. -- Mahatma Gandhi [ More Quotes ] [About Us] [General Info] [Program Listings] [Sabbatical Info] [Bring Your Group] [Email Newsletter] [Staff] [Quotes] [Links] [Contact] [Home] Web Design by Networld-Project © 1999 - 2012