If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
03520 – Who is Responsible?
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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.
03472 – Take the Risk
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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...
03459 – New Year, War, and Peace
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.---------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a...
03362 – Faith & Love
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
03307 – Leadership & Listening
The true leader in a group is rarely the person who talks the most. It's usually the person who listens best. Listening is more than hearing what's said. It's noticing and surfacing what isn't said. Inviting dissenting views and amplifying quiet voices are acts of...
03245 – Commitment to Public Schools
Far too often, communities lack the resources or the commitment to invest adequately in their public schools. We need to understand that quality education for every single person in our society is essential to our future. from A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends
03229 – The Heart Cannot Pray by Itself
But it is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself. For then we confuse wishes, hopes, sighs, laments, rejoicing--all of which the heart can do by itself--with prayer. And we confuse heaven and earth, human...
03204 – Greatest Danger: Fail to Love
The spiritual stature of a person's life is measured by love, which in the end remains “the criterion for the definitive decision about a human life's worth or lack thereof”. Yet some believers think that it consists in the imposition of their own ideologies upon...