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| 83272e2 | Furthermore, the most popular modern answer to the question of what it means to be a good person is to be kind. Do not make other people suffer. If it doesn't hurt anyone, it's O.K. By this standard, God is not good it he lets us suffer. But by ancient standards, God might be good even though he lets us suffer, if he does it for the sake of the greater end of happiness, perfection of life and character and soul, that is, self. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1e0262e | The more you treat someone you hate as if you loved them, the more you will find yourself loving them. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c7123df | Thus, though Christians are in no way bound by the Jewish ceremonial or civil laws (because they were all in some way preparatory for Christ), we are still under the Ten Commandments in one way, though not in two other ways. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f73b139 | The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| f8d15f3 | We cannot go from our darkness to his light, because we are working in the dark. But God can go from his light to our darkness, because he is working in the light. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ee09fee | Why Won't We Be Bored in Heaven? Because we are with God, and God is infinite. We never come to the end of exploring Him. He is new every day. Because we are with God, and God is eternal. Time does not pass (a condition for boredom); it just is. All time is present in eternity, as all the events of the plot are present in an author's mind. There is no waiting. Because we are with God, and God is love. Even on earth, the only people who are .. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 13b20d4 | A certain participation in happiness can be had in this life, but perfect and true happiness cannot be had in this life. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 69b2b28 | But we will probably never see this, never move from original selfishness to universal charity and unselfishness, without the intermediate step of the family. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 378bc68 | No story is more beautiful than the Gospel, even though it is a story full of pain and nails and hate and blood and sin and murder and betrayal and forsakenness and unimaginable agony and death. It is the story of what happens to the most beautiful thing, Perfect Love, when it enters our world: it comes to a Cross, to the crossroad between good and evil. All our most beautiful stories are like the Gospel: they are tragedies first, and then .. | gospel jesus jesus-shock kreeft | Peter Kreeft | |
| 336db12 | For everything naturally desires good, | Peter Kreeft | ||
| e155d01 | Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1faec2c | Even though we hate some of the things we do or feel, we hate them only because we love ourselves. We feel we are unworthy of such bad stuff. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 9bb2948 | But we can influence (not compel) each other's choices through the mediating channels of imagination and emotion. So can angels. They can't put judgments in your mind or choices in your will, but they can put images in your imagination and feelings in your heart. (Feelings don't compel you either; your will can choose whether to follow your feelings or not.) | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 3d44965 | St. Thomas is as practical and plain and reasonable in ethics as Aristotle, or Confucius, or your uncle. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4f6c325 | Dostoyevsky says, "love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams" (The Brothers Karamazov)." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 4894ce8 | What distinguishes the saved from the damned is their relation to Christ. This is not St. Thomas' opinion, this is Christ's own clear teaching. What | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 1034a17 | A God made in the world's image can't save the world. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 964297e | Friendships are broken all the time. So are hearts. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 60a9b5c | Mr Lockwood, you've impressed a lot of people over the years. Personally, I expected you to be ghost-touched long ago, but your agency has flourished. Impress me again now... Let them forget about you... Even now, it's probably not too late. - Inspector Barnes | Jonathan Stroud | ||
| c5b137c | Self-compassion comes from recognizing that our imperfections are part of being human. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| e78dbdd | When the Right proclaims that socialism has failed, and that capitalism is the only alternative, the cultural Left has little to say in reply. For it prefers not to talk about money. Its principal enemy is a mind-set rather than a set of economic arrangements -- a way of thinking which is, supposedly, at the root of both selfishness and sadism. | Richard M. Rorty | ||
| bdb27d8 | One reason the cultural Left will have a hard time transforming itself into a political Left is that, like the Sixties Left, it still dreams of being rescued by an angelic power called "the people". In this sense, "the people" is the name of a redemptive preternatural force, a force whose demonic counterpart is named "power" or "the system". The cultural Left inherited the slogan "Power to the people" from the Sixties Left, whose members ra.. | Richard M. Rorty | ||
| f7c6cec | Vladimir Nabokov and George Orwell had quite different gifts, and their self-images were quite different. But, I shall argue, their accomplishment was pretty much the same. Both of them warn the liberal ironist intellectual against temptations to be cruel. Both of them dramatise the tension between private irony and liberal hope. In the following passage, Nabokov helped blur the distinctions which I want to draw: ...'Lolita' has no moral in.. | orwell | Richard M. Rorty | |
| 651a8e5 | For James, disgust with American hypocrisy and self-deception was pointless unless accompanied by an effort to give America reason to be proud of itself in the future. The kind of proto-Heideggerian cultural pessimism which Adams cultivated seemed, to James, decadent and cowardly. | proud | Richard M. Rorty | |
| 24b7e83 | May your first word be adventure and last word love. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 98d0140 | No one aspires to be the person who handles this kind of situation well. And we don't always handle it well. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| bbf732c | In Superman number one, published in 1939, Clark and Lois Lane travel to a thinly disguised Nazi Germany, where Lois ends up in front of a firing squad, until Superman rescues her. In Superman number two, also from 1939, Clark Kent visits faux Germany again and meets Adolphus Runyan, a scientist clearly modeled on Adolf Hitler, who has discovered a gas so powerful "it is capable of penetrating any type of gas-mask." The front cover of Capta.. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| c002441 | As early as April 1940, Hitler's chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, denounced Superman as a Jew. The weekly SS newspaper lambasted Jerry Siegel as "an intellectually and physically circumcised chap who has his headquarters in New York.... The inventive Israelite named this pleasant guy with an overdeveloped body and an underdeveloped mind 'Superman.'"Goebbels went on, "Woe to the American youth, who must live in such a poisoned atmosphere.. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 63c53f8 | A recent wave of research shows that children who eat dinner with their families are less likely to drink, smoke, do drugs, get pregnant, commit suicide, and develop eating disorders. Additional research found that children who enjoy family meals have larger vocabularies, better manners, healthier diets, and higher self-esteem. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 80ae893 | In his work as a management consultant, Covey often asked his corporate clients to write a one-sentence answer to the question "What is this organization's essential mission or purpose and what is its main strategy to accomplish that?" | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 7a81e83 | The future Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1822. In 1844 she married a free man, John Tubman. Five years later, fearing that she was about to be sold, Tubman tapped into a local network, received two names of safe houses from a white neighbor, and fled north toward Philadelphia. The journey was terrifying and mystical. She navigated using the North Star; she may have followed the drinkiri gourd, a code nam.. | Bruce Feiler | ||
| 1337cf7 | But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them. | god | Bruce Feiler | |
| eacb96b | It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 51db0f9 | Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 98163d8 | Building resilience depends on the opportunities children have and the relationships they form with parents, caregivers, teachers, and friends. We can start by helping children develop four core beliefs: (1) they have some control over their lives; (2) they can learn from failure; (3) they matter as human beings; and (4) they have real strengths to rely on and share. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8b5d251 | Padmasree Warrior, Cisco's chief technology officer, was asked by The Huffington Post, "What's the most important lesson you've learned from a mistake you've made in the past?" She responded, "I said no to a lot of opportunities when I was just starting out because I thought, 'That's not what my degree is in' or 'I don't know about that domain.' In retrospect, at a certain point it's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8782a62 | finding God or a higher power reminds us that we are not the center of the universe. There is much we don't understand about human existence, and there is order and purpose to it anyway. It helps us feel that our suffering is not random or meaningless." Yet" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0d02ef0 | The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| a8bd42d | As Gloria Steinem observed, "Whoever has power takes over the noun--and the norm--while the less powerful get an adjective."1 Since no one wants to be perceived as less powerful, a lot of women reject the gender identification and insist, "I don't see myself as a woman; I see myself as a novelist/ athlete/ professional/ fill-in-the-blank." They are right to do so. No one wants her achievements modified. We all just want to be the noun. Yet" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 3ed4ad9 | When someone isn't making good decisions, few have the guts to tell that person, especially if that person is the boss. One | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 23a7d26 | Parental behavioral factors--including fathers who are responsive and positive, mothers who favor "self-directed child behavior," and parents with emotional intimacy in their marriages--influence a child's development two to three times more than any form of child care." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 01a20be | In China, women who are single past the age of twenty-seven are stigmatized as sheng nu, or "leftover women." They face severe pressure from their families to marry, stemming from the widespread belief that regardless of education and professional achievement, a woman is "absolutely nothing until she is married." One thirty-six-year-old economics professor was rejected by fifteen men because she had an advanced degree; her father then forba.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| c07453d | When I wrote Lean In, some people argued that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don't have a partner. They were right. I didn't get it. I didn't get how hard it is to succeed at work when you are overwhelmed at home. I wrote a chapter titled "Make Your Partner a Real Partner" about the importance of couples splitting child care and housework 50/50. Now I see how insensitive and unhelpful this wa.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| eeb6c43 | leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. | Sheryl Sandberg |