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Safety in God

Source: A Goodwill Reflection taken from the book “Tesouros da Alma” [Treasures of the Soul] (2017). | Updated in August 2019.
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Rui Barbosa

Wherever and whenever we are with God we shall always be safe. The Heavenly Father is the Divine Feeling of Charity, which nourishes our existence. In his book Discurso no Colégio Anchieta [Speech at Colégio Anchieta] (1903), Rui Barbosa (1849-1923) wrote: “God is the need of needs. God is the inevitable key to the Universe. God is the unknown solution to great insoluble problems. God is the harmony among the disharmonies of creation.”

Lasting Peace

Tela: Carl Bloch (1834-1890)

    

It is crucial to emphasize the proposals and actions on behalf of real and fraternal understanding among nations; and a different route for them is going to be that of a bitter medicine. That is why we should never lose Hope in the face of suffering. We must carry on working “for a better world and a happier humanity,” as the late Alziro Zarur (1914-1979) proposed. This is the way to victory. This is not a simplistic argument, but the correct path towards lasting Peace. It was the example that Jesus, the Compass of our most legitimate Hope, offered us, as I state in my book Jesus, o Libertador Divino [Jesus, the Divine Liberator] (2007).

José de Paiva Netto (1941-2025), a writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, educator, composer, poet, the President Emeritus and Consolidator of the Legion of Good Will, and Spiritual Leader of the Religion of God, of the Christ, and of the Holy Spirit. He was an effective member of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) and the Brazilian International Press Association (ABI-Inter), a member of the National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Union of Professional Journalists of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Writers of Rio de Janeiro, the Radio Broadcasters Union of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Union of Composers (UBC), and the Academy of Letters of Central Brazil. He became an internationally recognized author in the defense of human rights and in his concepts of Ecumenical Citizenship and Ecumenical Spirituality, which, in his own words, represent “the cradle of the most generous values that are born of the Soul, the dwelling of emotions and of reasoning enlightened by intuition; the atmosphere that embraces everything that transcends the ordinary field of matter and comes from elevated human sensitivity, such as Truth, Justice, Mercy, Ethics, Honesty, Generosity, and Fraternal Love. In short, the mathematical constant that harmonizes the equation of spiritual, moral, mental, and human existence. Now, without the understanding that we exist on two planes―not only on the physical plane―it will be difficult to build a Society that is truly Ecumenical, Altruistic, and Solidary, since we would still be ignoring that the knowledge of Superior Spirituality elevates the character of creatures and, consequently, leads to the construction of the Planetary Citizenship.”