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To speak a true word is to transform the world. - Paulo Freire - From Pedagogy of the Oppressed + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. - Psalm 130:3-4 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Charity is the live wire along which the power of God, indwelling our finite spirits, can and does act on other souls and other things, rescuing, healing, giving support and light. Such secret intercessory prayer ought to penetrate and accompany all our active work. It is the supreme expression of the spiritual life on earth.It moves from God to others through us, because we have ceased to be self-centered units, but are woven into the great fabric of praying souls, the 'mystical body' through which the work of Christ on earth goes on being done. - Evelyn Underhill + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. - Psalm 9:9-10 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

For I tell you this: one loving, blind desire for God alone is more valuable in itself, more pleasing to God adn to the saints, more beneficial to your own growth, and more helpful to your friends, both living and dead, than anything else you could do. - Anonymous From a fourteenth-century anonymous work, The Cloud of Unknowing + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Above all the graces and gifts of the Holy Spirit, which Christ grants to His friends, is that of self-conquest and of willingly bearing sufferings, injuries and reproaches and discomforts for the love of Christ. If we shall bear all these things patiently and with cheerfulness, thinking on the suffering of Christ the blessed, which we ought to bear patiently for His love, O Brother Leo, write that here and in this is perfect joy. - Francis of Assisi + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Lord, grant us the courage to fight the good fight by treating everybody right. Amen.

Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.  - Arundhati Roy + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Lord, you have done great things for us, many of which we have hardly noticed. You are Lord over the past, sovereign in the present, and victorious in the future. Even in our trials, we celebrate you. Amen.