People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
Religious laws, in all the major religious traditions, have both a letter and a spirit. As I understand the words and example of Jesus, the spirit of the law is all-important whereas the letter, while useful… becomes lifeless and deadly without it....
The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did not come into the Bible as original and authoritative from the authors themselves, but rather from the influence of...
The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him, but that he is shaped to them. The air was not made ...
In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the first year he was asked to submit a religious wor...
Unless men may come to a reasonable, solid persuasion and conviction of the truth of the gospel, by the internal evidences of it, . . . by a sight of its glory; it is impossible that those who are illiterate, and unacquainted with history, should hav...
Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered...
Malicious or not, strong leaders always attract others.
Malicious or not, strong leaders always attracted others.
There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.
Success comes through small daily wins.
Everyone is self employed and your employer is you.
To sacrifice anything is of great honor. To sacrifice everything is of God.
I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
A traitor leader is the outcome of a fool nation.
For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.
Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.
A leader must inspire or his team will expire.
Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.
