“Every day, like everyone else, I need to be awakened from complacency.”    – Stuart Klawans

“Preaching is truth-telling. Truth-telling is based upon reality.”     – James Armstrong

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”    – Werner Heisenberg

“There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”     –  Leonard Cohen

“God is at work enlarging the boundaries of my heart.”     – Howard Thurman

“We don’t heal in isolation, but in community.”   – S. Kelley Harrell

“Dear God, help me to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.”  – unknown

“The kingdom of God is within.”    –  Jesus, & others

“I think the kingdom is among us already, because the kingdom is love. When we have love, there’s the kingdom.” –  from a woman named Rebeca, who lives in Nicaragua

“There are so many hungry children in the world for whom the face of God appears as a loaf of bread.”    – Gandhi

“Preserve me O God, for in You I put my trust.”    – Psalm 16:1

“I can’t do everything, but I can do something to help somebody. And what I can do I will do. I wish I could do more.”–  Oseola McCarty, born in 1908, a black child of the segregated South. She spent 80 of her 91 yrs washing, drying, & ironing the clothes of well-to-do white folks in her hometown of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. When she finally retired in 1995 she wrote a check for $150,000 to create a scholarship @ the Univ. of Southern Mississippi — a school that would not have accepted her when she was of college age because of the color of her skin.

“Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”–  Satchel Paige, famous pitcher in the Negro Leagues

“When you have more than you need, build a longer table not a higher fence.”    – unknown“. . . there is a general fearfulness in our culture, which is revealed by the obsession with & purchase of guns. Contemporary America is full of fear, but fear is not a Christian habit of mind.” – Marilynne Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize winning author

“Whenever possible, go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.”
– Yogi Berra, #8, New York Yankees,  who died in 2015 at the age of 90

“Later that night I held an atlas in my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world & whispered, where does it hurt? It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.”      – unknown

” When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will finally know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix, 1942 – 1970