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All Lives Matter

1/22/2024

Since 1984, January 22, has been recognized as National Sanctity of Human Life Day. What does that mean? Sanctity of Life believes that all lives matter - not because they have potential of productivity but because all lives matter to God.
>Human Life has value.
Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.
>Life begins before conception.
Psalm 139:13-16 "For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be."
>The Unborn Deserve Justice.
Exodus 21:22-24 22 “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”
>We are Responsible.
Proverbs 31:8 "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute."

Martin Luther King Jr day

1/15/2024

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr, I am posting an assortment of quotes listed on goodreads.com. Adding my comments to them would reduce his voice.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”

Martin Luther King Jr. born January 15, 1929, assassinated April 4, 1968.