Many religious people think that it’s all a merit badge system—all achievement, accomplishment, performance, and perfection. The good people win and the bad people lose. Of course, once we cast anything as a win-lose scenario, the irony is that everybody loses. Why...
The kings and dictators and the mighty of the world accomplish their work with speeches and drums and brass and the thunder of bombers. But God works in silence.
What are you hoping to accomplish with your life? When you get where you’re going, where will you be? If you spend forty years being a lawyer, engineer, salesperson, nurse, what will you have accomplished? If you’ve had only a job all those years, you may not have...
It is a monumental accomplishment for 200 voices to sing one note in tune—let alone 80 minutes of 4 to 7-part harmony. And it takes everybody caring every second.
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least...