It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the … - Cesar Chavez

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The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

Cesar Chavez

It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.

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