It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create. - Leonard Sweet
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
- Leonard Sweet
When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything. - Leonard Sweet
When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.
When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at… - Leonard Sweet
When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at…
The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone. - Leonard Sweet
The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.
The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you. - Leonard Sweet
The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you.
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalizatio… - Leonard Sweet
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalizatio…
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the … - Leonard Sweet
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the …
If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you. - Leonard Sweet
If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.
I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here. - Leonard Sweet
I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.
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