The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.
Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.
We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.
I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do whatever is necessary to see that they exercise complete control over the politicians in the politician, in the politics of their own community by whatever means necessary.
Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.