Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.
Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.
Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.
I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.
There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed. . . There is no concern of Scripture that is addressed so often and so powerfully as reaching out to the poor.
One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.
Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle. . . Let me put it quite simply: If Jesus had $40,000 and knew about the kids who are suffering and dying in Haiti, what kind of car would he buy?
I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.
Kindness Day should be everyday of your life.