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Verse of the Day: ‘He will quickly grant justice to them’

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them.

- Luke 18:7-8

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Voice of the Day: Millicent Fenwick

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice.

- Millicent Fenwick,
Speaking Up

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Verse of the Day: ‘Look at the nations, and see!’

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

Look at the nations, and see! Be astonished! Be astounded! For a work is being done in your days that you would not believe if you were told.

- Habakkuk 1:5

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Voice of the Day: Archbishop Oscar Romero

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution
of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is…

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Verse of the Day: ‘Those from earth may strike terror no more’

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek; you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed, so that those from earth may strike terror no more.

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Voice of the Day: Amelia Barr

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

- Amelia Barr,
All the Days of my Life

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Verse of the Day: ‘Forgive others their trespasses’

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

- Matthew 6:14-15

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Voice of the Day: Allan Boesak

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

It is not only the freedom of the oppressed that is at stake … but also the liberation of the oppressor.

- Allan Boesak,
South African minister

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Verse of the Day: ‘The breath of the Almighty gives me life’

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The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

- Job 33:4

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Voice of the Day: Corazon Aquino

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace, it shouldn’t be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

- Corazon Aquino,
political leader and president (1986-92) of the Philippines.

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Verse of the Day: ‘The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord’

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in…

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Voice of the Day: Marian Wright Edelman

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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

- Marian Wright Edelman,
Families in Peril

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Verse of the Day: ‘You have taken up my cause, O Lord’

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

You heard my plea, “Do not close your ear to my cry for help, but give me relief!” You came near when I called you; you said, “Do not fear!” You have taken up my cause, O Lord, you have…

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Voice of the Day: Alfred Lord Tennyson

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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Verse of the Day: ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God’

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

Then the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that ‘he is one, and besides him there is no other’; and ‘to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with…

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Voice of the Day: Emily Dickinson

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops at all.

- Emily Dickinson

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Verse of the Day: ‘Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope’

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

As for you also, because of the
blood of my covenant with you,
I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
today I declare that I will restore to you double.

- Zechariah 9:11-12

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Voice of the Day: The Dalai Lama

Sojourners Verse and Voice - 42 min 50 sec ago

If there is love, there is hope to have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost, if you continue to see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge…

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