#human virtue

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Two Ways We Get the Gospel Wrong, One Way to Get It Right

Christians tend to fall into two variations of the same error. Some confuse the work of God for human action or cultural achievements, or they pit God’s saving work against all human action or virtue. As odd sounding as it is, God’s work in Christ is undermined by both approaches making Christ only half a Savior.

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Biden Was For The Senate's Constitutional Power Before He Was Against It

He then quoted “Hamilton’s most famous dictum,” in Federalist 75, on the treaty power: The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which ...

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[musingsofafuturewriter]

It is more important to be compassionate than it is to be right.

Barbara Harris, first African American woman bishop

This sentence is one of the few things from a sermon that has really, really stuck with me. I have an enormously hard time keeping this in mind because I have an enormously huge love of being right. But my being right is not the most important thing to me, not even close, but I forget this. A lot. And then I think of this quote, and it reminds me that there are more worthwhile things for me to be concerned with.

I really do think that, if everyone in the world reminded themselves of this once in a while, the world would be a better place, because compassion should be a common feature across every religion and political viewpoint and gender and race and any of the myriad things that divide us.

Compassion is respect, and there is nothing more important than truly respecting those around you. Having respect for someone means you value them as a person and as someone worth your consideration, and there is no person on earth who deserves any less than that from you. It's hard, really hard, sometimes, to remember this and act upon it. But we need to. Respect for yourself, other people, and the world we share leads to every other type of virtue. You cannot be patient or kind or forgiving or brave without having respect.

I'm going to make this my challenge for this week: to try to live into placing compassion above being right. It will probably be a challenge, but I think it's a challenge I need to take.

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Seven dangers to human virtue according to Mahatma Ghandi