There are 42 article(s) tagged G. Scott Morris:
“In this Easter season, what could be more biblical than helping the poor who are almost blind to get their vision back? For Memphis to thrive as a community, we need to be healthy in body and spirit.”
In the next several weeks: Ramadan is observed until April 9; Christians celebrate Easter March 31 and Jews will celebrate Passover April 22 - 30. I pray that these holy days where we each believe God loves us in a special way can open our hearts to remember that God loves us all just the same.
“Currently 7,000 people in Memphis are known to be HIV-positive. We think almost 1 million people in America have HIV... which means a lot of people are exposed to HIV and don’t have a clue.”
“There are a million Henry Turley stories to point out that he is still available to help solve our city’s problems. He retired from the Henry Turley Co. a few months ago, which means he now has more time to work on solving those problems.”
“There are 25.6 million people who are uninsured in this country. That’s more than the population of 177 countries and every state other than Texas and California.”
“As Christmas approaches, many platitudes will surround us about love and harmony. I hope we can commit ourselves to the discipline required to become truly kind souls.”
“The data is clear that having a physician you develop a relationship with over time leads to better health outcomes in almost every way that can be measured.”
“God’s love is infinite, and a piece of infinity is infinity. If we continue to measure our lives using money as a guide, there will never be enough.”
“I know that we face serious matters in our city, but that will always be the case. I am looking for a mayor who can lead through serious matters without taking herself or himself too seriously.”
“I hope we will all treat it with honor and respect because Tom Lee Park will change the way outsiders view our city and how we see ourselves.”
“The Tuesday soup kitchen, run by students at Rhodes, is the longest-running college student-led soup kitchen in the country. I find this jaw-droppingly impressive.”
On a recent trip to Europe, I found few people engaged in regular religious life. Beautiful cathedrals were mostly for tourists and not worshipers. I don’t feel in America we are headed down the same path.
“Life can be hard, and the best way for all of us to make it through the troubles of the world is to care for one another. If we can commit to this, we will make it through the difficult road we all travel down.”
“Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience, and above all these put on love which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
“I believe that the truth is to be found, and we can find it the same way that King was looking for it on the night of April 4, 1968.”
“We create the ability to live with our fears by knowing that the goodness of life follows us on the journey.”
G. Scott Morris says the future of Memphis will be built by young people taking up the challenge to redesign the fabric of what makes Memphis a great city.
“Our resolve is not to get ahead of ourselves, beyond the moment we are currently living in. We resolve to be in each moment fully and bring our kindest, most generous self to that situation.”
“My saying ‘Merry Christmas’ makes some people see me as a conservative, Republican, older, evangelical Southerner. Most of those judgments don’t actually describe who I am.”
“We’ve done something remarkable together here in Memphis for the last 35 years. We’ve been people of faith who have responded to a broken health care system.”
“When we carry with us the heaviness of the broken world wherever we go, we focus such intensity on how we experience the presence of evil in our midst and risk missing the presence of God.”
“I find it easy to understand why women see the overturning of Roe v. Wade as rolling back a broad range of rights for women that goes well beyond the matter of abortion.”
In today’s world, it is hard to envision a leader so willing to accept responsibility in the face of a potential — even likely — monumental failure.
Why is it so hard to say goodbye to our dogs? I asked Scott Morris, who is still saddened by the recent loss of Sidney, the best dog ever. He says the secret is love.
We won’t get anywhere if we respond to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting by only, once again, calling for legal changes that will have little chance of being enacted. We need to sit down in our houses of worship and come up with concrete ways to draw close to the children Jesus loves.
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