We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
04139 – True Civilization
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03491 – Following Jesus
When you take the Way of Jesus seriously, you encounter resistance. Jesus calls us to love our enemies, but society kills our enemies. Jesus calls us to Jubilee, but ours is a nation of debt. Jesus calls us to befriend the ostracized, but ours is a society of...
03440 – Jungle vs. Civilization
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.
03100 – Standards
The standards of the civilization into which you are born are first outside of you, and by the time you get to be a man they're inside of you.
02907 – The Imaginative Child
The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.
02874 – Memory is Important
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no future.
01652 – Who is More Important? Groups or Individuals?
To the Materialist things like nations, classes, civilizations must be more important than individuals, because the individuals live only seventy odd years each and the group may last for centuries. But to the Christian, individuals are more important, for they live...
00498 – There are No Ordinary People
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors...
00379 – Church Can Bear Witness to Truth
There has never been a time when I have not been really happy in the relationship of the parish ministry. The church can really be a community of love and can give one new confidence in the efficacy of the principles of brotherhood outside the family relation. The...
00040 – Let Christians Not Quibble
And all hands are needed to save this sinking ship. Let Christians not quibble about commitments to Christ. Let all those who want to keep civilization civilized—put quality into culture, humanity into business life, life into the millions who are now drifting—let...