Showing posts with label Christian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christian. Show all posts

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Social Concern


One cannot be Christian without social concern. 
There is no reason why anyone should go hungry even for a day.
 Since the resources are there, why do millions continue to starve? 
The answer must be greed.
(Father Thomas Keating, Invitation to Love, p. 125)
26 March 2016

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Wealth

You should strive for a union between your purpose in life and the purposes of the Divine Principle directing the universe. (Twenty-Four Hours A Day, 1 August)

If Christians would follow the law, there would be no rich and no poor. (Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar Of Wisdom, 31 July)

We have created a way of life which is contrary to mankind's moral and physical nature, and yet we want to be free while living this kind of life. (Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar Of Wisdom, 1 August)

A rich person can be insensitive and completely indifferent to the woes of others. (The Talmud, Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar Of Wisdom, 31 July)

A person must completely close his eyes on his morals, that in a Christian society so filled with people in need, there are other people who are so proud to have great wealth. (Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar Of Wisdom, 31 July)

Wealth reminds me of manure in the field. When it is in a big pile it makes a bad smell.  But when it is distributed everywhere across the field, it makes the soil fertile. (Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar Of Wisdom, 31 July)

Mr. Dickie
2 August 2012