Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
Robert K. GreenleafRead
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.
Interpretation
Faith involves choosing a perspective that elevates understanding and hope, rather than asserting absolute truth.
This quote by Robert K. Greenleaf emphasizes that faith is not about declaring a definitive truth, but rather about selecting the most admirable possibility based on our current knowledge and insight. The 'nobler hypothesis' suggests that even amidst uncertainty, we can strive to adopt beliefs and assumptions that uplift us and inspire us to act in better ways.
In practice
During a motivational speech, one might use this quote to encourage the audience to adopt a positive mindset in challenging times.
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.
A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.
Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
No honest man will argue on every side
Straight ahead you can't go very far.
INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.
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