I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.
Interpretation
To be an effective leader, one may need to step away from traditional practices that no longer serve their purpose.
In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the role of a minister may require reevaluation in light of changing times. He argues that adhering to outdated rituals and forms hinders spiritual growth and progress, indicating that true leadership might involve challenging the status quo and innovating beyond inherited customs.
In practice
This quote could inspire a discussion on modern leadership practices in a seminar.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.
White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
One may say that in a state of science where fundamental concepts have to be changed, tradition is both the condition for progress and a hindrance. Hence, it usually takes a long time before the new concepts are generally accepted.
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Easter means that Christmas worked.
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