Category: Quotes

It is not just partisan politics for a party to deliberately and systematically seek to suppress minority votes, it is also a heretical denial of the biblical assertion of the image of God in every one of us that entitles us to equal dignity, equal rights, equal citizenship, and equal opportunity.

Rev. Jim Wallis, in Christ in Crisis

Pope Francis called tax evasion a “structure of sin.” In a recent interview, the pontiff said: “It has become evident that those who do not pay their taxes are not only committing a crime, but murder: if there are not enough hospital beds or respirators, they too are partly to blame.”

“Many people belong to the church who do not belong to God, and many people belong to God who do not belong to the church.”

St. Augustine

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer, American philosopher

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COVID-19 Notes

Yes, the old ways of doing things are on hold, perhaps for longer than we realize. But this moment of rupture may be an opening to new paths. New connections. New ways of being. And, if we are diligent and blessed, maybe even liberation.

~ Rabbi Michael Rothbaum

Lent…that space where we look, first of all, at what we set out to be, and then look consciously at what we are now doing to get there.

~ Joan Chittister, OSB

Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think. 

~ Albert Einstein.

“It is not enough to offer someone a sandwich unless it is accompanied by the possibility of learning how to stand on one’s own two feet. Charity that leaves the poor person as he is, is not sufficient. True mercy, the mercy God gives to us and teaches us, demands justice, it demands that the poor find the way to be poor no longer.”

~ Pope Francis