Rather than defining success by the brand of clothing we can afford, may we find it in the number of people we have helped to clothe.
03555 – How Do We Define Success?
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03514 – Stand Up!
Whenever one person stands up and says, "Wait a minute--this is wrong," it helps other people to do the same.
03492 – Becoming Wounded Healers
Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not "How can we hide our wounds?" so we don't have to be embarrassed, but "How can we put our woundedness in the service of...
03484 – Smokescreens?
If I were a betting woman, I’d bet 10 bucks some of the meanest, relentlessly condemning people do in the dark the very thing they condemn in the light. I wish I had the luxury of a background that wouldn’t make me suspect smokescreens of loudmouth Bible police. But I...
03468 – Beautiful People Don’t Just Happen
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with...
03444 – After Your Death…
If you knew how quickly people would forget about you after your death, you will not seek in your life to please anyone but God. (circa 387)
03437 – Go to Poor People
If you're in trouble or hurt or need, go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help--the only ones. from The Grapes of Wrath
03436 – Accountability & Trust
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. --------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: A body of people holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
03419 – Knowing the Joy of God
People who have come to know the joy of God do not deny the darkness, but they choose not to live in it.
03377 – Excluding God’s Creatures
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.---------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive paraphrase: If you have people who will...