Sat 31 Jul 2010
We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need to create impressions that won’t last on people we don’t care about.
~Tim Jackson, Prof. Of Sustainable Development, University of Surrey as quoted on the blog Wrestling with Angels…
Tags: money, Poverty, spend, sustainable development, tim jackson, university of surrey, world, wrestling with angelsMon 26 Jul 2010
You see, the big thing for me is to love reality and not live in the imagination, not live in what could have been or what should have been or what can be, and somewhere, to love reality and then discover that God is present.
~Jean Vanier, via Pax Christi Facebook Page
Tags: Christ, discover, facebook, god, imagination, jean vanier, Live, love, pax christi, seeSat 24 Jul 2010
What good am I if I’m like all the rest
If I just turn away, when I see how you’re dressed
If I shut myself off so I can’t hear you cry
What good am I?
What good am I if I know and don’t do
If I see and don’t say, if I look right through you
If I turn a deaf ear to the thunderin’ sky
What good am I?
…
What good am I if I say foolish things
And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings
And I just turn my back while you silently die
What good am I?
~Bob Dylan, from “What Good Am I?“
Tags: Bob Dylan, deaf ear, face, foolish things, Good, laugh, right, see, sky, sorrowSun 11 Jul 2010
This attitude of soul towards poverty is in truth the supreme test of the genuine Franciscan spirit whether in life or in art.
~Father Cuthbert, O.S.F.C., “St. Francis and Poverty” from Franciscan Essays
Tags: art, attitude, Cuthbert, Francis, life, O.S.F.C., Poverty, soul, spirit, st francis, supreme test, truthFri 9 Jul 2010
Kissing the Leper — “Thoughts, ideas, ramblings, musings and prayers about the Catholic teaching life, and an acknowledgement of the perfect joy of suffering in Christ.” Can be found at http://www.kissingtheleper.com/.
No tags for this post.Thu 8 Jul 2010
He would tell his sons that she was the way of perfection, the pledge and earnest of eternal riches. No one was so greedy of gold as he of poverty; no one more careful in guarding a treasure than he in guarding this pearl of the Gospel.
~Thomas of Celano, The Second Life of St. Francis of Assisi
Tags: francis of assisi, gold, Gospel, greed, life, perfection, pledge, Poverty, second life, St. Francis of Assisi (about him), Thomas of Celano, treasure, way, way of perfection
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