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“A second lesson comes to us from Jesus' prayer on the cross. It is an expression of Jesus' awareness of man's intellectual and spiritual blindness. "They know not what they do," said Jesus. Blindness was their trouble; enlightenment was their need. We must recognize that Jesus was nailed to the cross not simply by sin but also by blindness. The men who cried, "Crucify him," were not bad men but rather blind men.”
— Sep 30, 2025 04:45AM
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Al Owski
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“As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first time that the Christian doctrine of love, operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence, is one of the most potent weapons available to an oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.”
— 11 hours, 3 min ago
Al Owski
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“Then I was introduced to the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. As I read his works I became deeply fascinated by his campaigns of nonviolent resistance. The whole Gandhian concept of satyagraha (satya is truth which equals love and graha is force; satyagraha thus means truth-force or love-force) was profoundly significant to me.”
— 11 hours, 7 min ago
Al Owski
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“The gospel at its best deals with the whole man, not only his soul but also his body, not only his spiritual well-being but also his material well-being. A religion that professes a concern for the souls of men and is not equally concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a spiritually moribund religion.”
— 11 hours, 10 min ago
Al Owski
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“I had almost despaired of the power of love to solve social problems. The turn-the-other-cheek and the love-your-enemies philosophies are valid, I felt, only when individuals are in conflict with other individuals; when racial groups and nations are in conflict, a more realistic approach is necessary.”
— 11 hours, 13 min ago
Al Owski
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“Death is inevitable. It is a democracy for all of the people, not an aristocracy for some of the people–kings die and beggars die; young men die and old men die; learned men die and ignorant men die.”
— 11 hours, 18 min ago
Al Owski
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“Religion endows us with the conviction that we are not alone in this vast, uncertain universe. Beneath and above the shifting sands of time, the uncertainties that darken our days, and the vicissitudes that cloud our nights is a wise and loving God."
— 11 hours, 20 min ago
Al Owski
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“We are afraid of the superiority of other people, of failure, and of the scorn or disapproval of those whose opinions we most value. Envy, jealousy, a lack of self-confidence, a feeling of insecurity, and a haunting sense of inferiority are all rooted in fear. We do not envy people and then fear them; first we fear them and subsequently we become jealous of them.”
— 11 hours, 26 min ago
Al Owski
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“What then is the cure of this morbid fear of integration? We know the cure. God help us to achieve it! Love casts out fear.“
— 11 hours, 28 min ago
Al Owski
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“Third, fear is mastered through love. The New Testament affirms, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love cast out fear." The kind of love which led Christ to a cross and kept Paul from bitterness amid the angry torrents of persecution is not soft, anemic, and sentimental.”
— Oct 08, 2025 06:41AM
Al Owski
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“Courage breeds creative self-affirmation; cowardice produces destructive self-abnegation. Courage faces fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live.”
— Oct 08, 2025 06:38AM
