Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.
01661 – Experience: Hardest Kind of Teacher
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01509 – The Test of Our Progress
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
01487 – Joke about Your Religion?
It's the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
01318 – Faith: Exploring, Exposing, & Testing
To have faith is to explore--and go on exploring--the life of the spirit on the only journey that matters: that of becoming a more rounded and authentic human being. It is to expose yourself to what has been thought of most value by past generations and test it in the...
01133 – The Gold Mines of a Culture
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
00238 – Cross: Test & Destiny for Christians
There is no genuine Christianity where the sign of the Cross is absent. Cheap grace is grace without the Cross, an intellectual assent to a dusty pawnshop of doctrinal beliefs while drifting aimlessly with the cultural values of the secular city. Discipleship without...