Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
- Matthew 5:9
Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.
- Winona LaDuke
All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20
Yet we are dust in the loving hands of God, who has breathed his spirit of life upon each one of us, and still wants to do so.
- Pope Francis
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
- Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.
- Tupac Shakur
Praise God!
"The...resolution..calls on the government of Cameroon and separatist armed groups from the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions “to end all violence, respect the human rights of all Cameroonians, and pursue a genuinely inclusive dialogue..."
Witnessing the privilege of White Americans to take over the Capitol Building and disrupt the work of the #Congress. POTUS is sitting in his office watching. How many if any people of color would have lasted (alive) this long if the same tactics were used? #PCUSA#OGA
A minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbytery of Philadelphia, the Rev. Margaret Grun Kibben, a retired Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy’s Chaplain Corps, has been named Chaplain of the 117th U.S. House of Representatives. #pcusa#presbyterian https://t.co/TPe185IK9m
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - Stated Clerk denounces immigration officials’ plan to return hundreds of Cameroonians to a situation of extreme danger https://t.co/qijsCc6JuL
Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
- Galatians 6:2 (NRSV)
You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it, and responsible for changing it.
- Grace Lee Boggs
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
- 2 Timothy 1:7
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
- Ursula K. Le Guin