By Kendra Cherry — 2020
It is social support that builds people up during times of stress and often gives them the strength to carry on and even thrive.
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Risks of Faith offers for the first time the best of noted theologian James H. Cone’s essays, including several new pieces.
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story explores the extraordinary life and legacy of one of the most important religious figures of the 20th century.
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.