Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.
Interpretation
Asking for financial support allows others to contribute to a greater cause.
This quote emphasizes the idea that requesting financial assistance should not be perceived as a burden but rather as an invitation for others to share their blessings and resources for a noble purpose. By framing the act of asking for money as an opportunity for others to invest in something meaningful, it highlights the interconnectedness of community and the positive impact of collective resources on a larger mission.
In practice
Using this quote in a fundraising speech to inspire donors.
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Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering β for us. And calling us to share in Godβs suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected with the greater pains of Christ. Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow and therefore a larger hope.
To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.
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Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.
Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.
The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise -- then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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