“Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not only of beauty but of the world as a whole, and ourselves within it ... The artist can then join forces with those who work for justice and those who struggle for redemptive relationships, and together encourage and sustain those who are reaching out for a genuine, redemptive spirituality.” WorldLooksArtWholeHelpingTogetherArtistSpiritualityForceJusticeStruggleSeeingCreationGenuineInvisibleMake SenseVisibleReachingReach OutPuzzlesGlimpse Author:N. T. Wright
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” InspirationalTruthPoliticalSpiritualityCausesJusticeInspiringHonestyTruth IsDamageTelling The TruthImperfectTransparencyHonest TruthTruth And HonestyTruth HonestyTruth Be ToldTruth And JusticeHonesty InspirationalJustice Truth Book:Gandhi on Non-violence Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.” GivingHumansSpiritualityEnergyLinesJusticeHuman BeingsEmotionKindnessCreaturesAdultsBottomGenuineInteractionPhilanthropyInfantShiftingBottom LineOccasionalSentimentalityInterconnectednessGive And TakeMasochismGenuine Love Author:Jean Maalouf
“Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.” SpiritualitySocialJusticeSocial JusticeCommodity Author:Jim Wallis
“Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.” MadeJoySpiritualityJusticePleasureSettlingIntrospectionVengeanceBrokennessClamor Author:N. T. Wright
“God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.” WorldBelieveGodChristianSpiritualFaithSpiritualityPassionJesusBeliefReligiousJusticeBeautyLordRelationshipLongingHungerIsraelChristian InspirationalSatisfyingHave FaithTrust In GodYearningScholarTheologianBishopsConfidence In GodMessiahGreatness Of GodFollowing JesusGod Within UsMighty GodGod Is In ControlTrue GodNazarethGod Works In Mysterious Ways Author:N. T. Wright
“Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world ... That, quite simply, is what it means to be Christian: to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.” WorldWayMeanMadeChristianJoySpiritualityJesusChristJusticePleasureBehindsSunCreationJesus ChristSatisfiedSettlingThrownSentimentsNew WorldIntrospectionVengeanceTombsBrokennessClamorIncompleteness Author:N. T. Wright
“...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race.” PeopleLoveNeedsHumansGodTruthSpiritualPoliticalFaithSpiritualityPoliticsSocialLinesJusticeRaceMovementShapesSocial JusticeBottomCommittedGenerosityHuman RaceGenerousHeritageBottom LineInterfaithSocial MovementsMoney And Power Author:Michael Lerner
“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.” IfsWantHappinessSpiritualityPassionLiteratureJusticeAtheismIllusionEmbraceAppealsMysticismTemperamentSelectWant To Be Happy Author:Cyril Connolly
“As we see this work move forward and move on, I would only declare to you as I stand before you today that in those 90 and more years that I've had, as I've witnessed and felt and seen and been part of the spiritual experiences that have been mine, that this is the work of the Lord. It's just as has been revealed. I've sensed it and I feel it, and I so declare to you.” FeelsYearsHas BeensTodaySpiritualMovingSpiritualityFeltJusticeLordMinesMoving ForwardSpiritual Experience Author:David B. Haight
“Every religious tradition on which we draw has a reverence for life. We are a part of an intricate web of life. Every tradition on which we draw teaches that the ultimate expression of our spirituality is our action. Deep spirituality leads to action in the world. A deep reverence for life, love of nature's complex beauty and sense of intimate connection with the cosmos leads inevitably to a commitment to work for environmental and social justice.” WorldActionSpiritualitySocialReligiousJusticeTeachExpressionDrawsCommitmentTraditionConnectionsUltimateSocial JusticeComplexesEnvironmentalIntimateCosmosLove LifeReverenceOur ActionsIntricateNature LoveReverence For LifeReligious TraditionsWeb Of Life Author:Peter Morales
“Grant, Goddess, thy protection, And in protection, strength, And in strength, understanding, And in understanding, knowledge, And in knowledge the knowledge of justice, And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it, And in that love, the love of all existences, And in the love of all existences, the love of Goddess and all goodness.” SpiritReligionSpiritualityUnderstandingJusticeExistenceGoodnessProtectionGod LoveGrantsGoddessSeptemberUnderstanding Knowledge Author:Iolo Morganwg
“The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.” ChristianSpiritualityIndividualSocialJusticeCommitmentSocial JusticeDoctrineParallelsChristian Doctrine Author:Jim Wallis