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May 15, 2011 by kevinstilley

Social Justice – select quotes

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
~ Thomas Aquinas

To matter in the scheme of the cosmos: this is better theology than all our sociology. It is, in fact, all that God has promised to us: that we matter. That he cares. As far as I know, no great prophet has promised people that God will give them social justice, though he may have threatened doom and extinction if the people themselves don’t do something about it. If God cares about us, we have to care about each other.
~ Madeleine L’Engle, in A Circle of Quiet (NY: HarperCollins, 1972), pages 11-112

How different our standard is from Christ’s. We ask how much a man gives. He asks how much he keeps.
~ Andrew Murray

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Filed Under: Blog, Ethics / Praxis, Quotes Tagged With: Compassion, Disease, hunger, social justice, water

May 14, 2011 by kevinstilley

Lakes, Rivers & Swamps – Trivia

The Congo is the only river that flows both north and south of the equator. It crosses the equator twice.

Hydrologically speaking, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are a single lake.

The deepest lake in the United States is Oregon’s Crater Lake.

At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.

The name Okefenokee Swamp means “trembling earth” in Seminole.

The Dead Sea is nine times saltier than the ocean.

Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.

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December 13, 2009 by kevinstilley

Ocean Trivia

The plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.

The Dead Sea is nine times saltier than the ocean.

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The Dark Blue Sea
by Lord Byron

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.-

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean-roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin-his control
Stops with the shore;-upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own,
When for a moment, like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknell’d, uncoffin’d, and unknown.

His steps are not upon thy paths-thy fields
Are not a spoil for him-thou dost arise
And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields
For earth’s destruction thou dost all despise,
Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies,
And send’st him, shivering in thy playful spray,
And howling, to his gods, where haply lies
His petty hope in some near port or bay,
And dashest him again to earth: there let him lay.

The armaments which thunderstrike the walls
Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,
And monarchs tremble in their capitals,
The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make
Their clay creator the vain title take
Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war;
These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake,
They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar
Alike the armada’s pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.

Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee-
Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?
Thy waters washed them power while they were free,
And many a tyrant since: their shores obey
The stranger, slave or savage; their decay
Has dried up realms to deserts:-not so thou,
Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves’ play-
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow-
Such as creation’s dawn beheld, thou rollest now.

Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty’s form
Glasses itself in tempests; in all time
Calm or convulsed-in breeze, or gale, or storm,
Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime
Dark-heaving; boundless, endless and sublime-
The image of eternity-the throne
Of the invisible; even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

And I have loved thee, ocean! And my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy
I wanton’d with thy breakers-they to me
Were a delight; and if the freshening sea
Made them a terror-’twas a pleasing fear,
For I was as it were a child of thee,
And trusted to thy billows far and near,
And laid my hand upon thy mane – as I do here.

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