Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“1st business of life, to love the Lord our God with heart and soul, and our neighbor as our self… These two great commandments, and upon which rest all the Law and the prophets, cannot be narrowed down to suit us but we must go up and conform to them. They proscribe neither nation norContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 9th October”

“I don’t really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit thatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 8th October”

“I don’t preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn’t say, “Now is that political or social?” He said, “I feed you.” Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.” Archbishop Desmond TutuContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 7th October”

“Sometimes, too, we went out in the rubber boat to look at ourselves at night. Coal-black seas towered up on all sides, and a glittering myriad of tropical stars drew a faint reflection from plankton in the water. The world was simple – stars in the darkness. Whether it was 1947 B.C. or A.D. suddenlyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 6th October”

“I walk the unfrequented roadWith open eye and ear;I watch afield the farmer loadThe bounty of the year. I gather where I did not sow,And bind the mystic sheaf,The amber air, the river’s flow,The rustle of the leaf. A beauty springtime never knewHaunts all the quiet ways,And sweeter shines the landscape throughIts veil of autumnContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 5th October”

“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds — justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the doorContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 4th October”

“The mystical certainty that nothing can separate us from the love of God grows when we ourselves become one with love by placing ourselves, freely and without guarantee of success, on the side of love.” Dorothee Soelle, quoted in Christian Mystics by Matthew Fox

International Day of Non-Violence “God is in us, and He is present everywhere. It is God’s all-encompassing love that manifests itself in us. When this happens, we see no difference between people: everyone is good, everyone is our brother, and we consider ourselves to be the servants of every created thing.” Elder Thaddeus (1914 –Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 2nd October”

“The noblest joy of the senses,the holiest peace of the heart,the most resplendent lustre of all good worksderives from this:that the creatureputs his or her heartwholly into what s/he does.” Mechthild of Magdeburg, 13th century Beguine

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016), writer, holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, born on this day