[Justice George Sutherland said, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case] 'One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same...
But simply carving out a good life on earth is not the end goal. And in some cases, it can actually distract us from the bigger vision of being transformed into Christlikeness.
I think I have changed, I said.I think changes have happened to you, said Kristin. But that is not the same thing...
In the book Transformational Church, the authors say, Churches do not change until the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of changing.28
It would be tragic if, in a future recession or depression, policymakers repeated the same mistakes of the New Deal because they knew only the political histories of the time.
People with teachable spirits realize the value of humility and how little they actually know before consequences force them to act. They
The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart and spirit. – Dallas Willard