The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.
Interpretation
Responsible care for the environment is crucial for future generations.
This quote emphasizes the importance of environmental stewardship, conveying that the earth requires responsible and faithful care to continue providing for humanity. It highlights the contradiction in claiming to love the land while simultaneously exploiting it, urging us to consider the impact of our actions on future generations and the legacy we leave behind.
In practice
During an environmental awareness event, you can use this quote to emphasize the need for sustainable practices.
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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