When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.
03615 – Criticizing a System
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03372 – Happy/Unhappy People
The happiest people I know are evaluating and improving themselves. The unhappy people are usually evaluating and judging others.
03212 – Spotting Jesus Followers
Hey, if you aren’t much into religion, you may not know how to recognize followers of Jesus. If you are interested and have a curious mind, I can tell you that Jesus himself gave a direct, simple way to spot them. “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples...
03043 – I’m So Weary…
I’m so weary of a cloistered Christianity of privilege, one that feels itself entitled to comfort and ease, one that wields absolute power and cries “oppression” when it cannot have all of it. I’m exhausted from daily encountering a Church that still works to...
02773 – Loving Oneself
People who are unwilling to love themselves are incapable of giving and receiving love that is not toxic.
01758 – The Beginning of Love
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
01726 – Praying for Others
If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them.
01545 – Things Could be Worse
Should you ever find yourself the victim of other people's bitterness, smallness, or insecurities, remember: Things could be worse. You could be them.
01383 – Mourners: Taking Action
Those people are not real mourners who say, "Sure, the world's in a mess, and I guess maybe I'm a bit guilty like everybody else, but what can I do about it?" What they're really saying is that they are not concerned enough about themselves or the world to look for...