If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
Miroslav VolfRead
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
Interpretation
Fraud in business can be compared to infidelity and plagiarism, highlighting how moral failings can occur across different aspects of life.
Miroslav Volf's quote draws a parallel between different forms of dishonesty, suggesting that whether in business, personal relationships, or academia, individuals can falter morally. It underscores the universality of ethical dilemmas and the ease with which people may compromise their values, even when they hold themselves to high standards.
In practice
In a discussion about ethical business practices.
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
Love properly understood is Godβthe font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.
If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.
There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.
To affirm that God is God is to want to live in a particular way.
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
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