@lukeburgis 20/ Isaiah’s image—"justice the line, righteousness the plummet"—gives us the image of divine architecture: reality itself founded on justice as right relation. Covenantal fidelity is not a metaphor but the very structure of reality—a world built on injustice cannot stand.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Hadewijch and1John3:8 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: top Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1511045414031482880 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. “The greatest radiance anyone can have on earth is truth in works of justice performed in imitation of the Son.” - Hadewijch of Antwerp. “For this purpose, the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the evil spirit.” 1 John 3:8
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Rev Dr Barber Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1/2 Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 1/2 Yes, and our prophets universally assert that ultimately, freedom for the world’s poor involves substantially more than a morale boost. @RevDrBarber: “The poor are all those who have to endure acts of violence and acts of injustice without being able to defend themselves.” "The masses of people live with their backs constantly against the wall. They are the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed. What does our religion say to them?" - Howard Thurman Abraham Joshua Heschel, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s closest non-Black ally, asked, “Who shall prevent the epidemic of injustice that no Court of Justice is capable of stopping?”
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Howard Thurman Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: orange card Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 1/2 Yes, and our prophets universally assert that ultimately, freedom for the world’s poor involves substantially more than a morale boost. @RevDrBarber: “The poor are all those who have to endure acts of violence and acts of injustice without being able to defend themselves.” "The masses of people live with their backs constantly against the wall. They are the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed. What does our religion say to them?" - Howard Thurman Abraham Joshua Heschel, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s closest non-Black ally, asked, “Who shall prevent the epidemic of injustice that no Court of Justice is capable of stopping?”
Open original document#AJHeschel: "Those who know how to exploit are endowed with the skill to justify their acts, while those who are easily exploited possess no skill in pleading their own cause. Who shall prevent the epidemic of injustice that no Court of Justice is capable of stopping?" 7/
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