The World Motivation
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
“Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.”
— Karen Armstrong · Great
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.