É impossível justificar os excessos do povo ao pegar em armas… Mas é realmente o povo a quem devemos imputar tudo, ou a seus opressores, que os mantiveram por tanto tempo na escravidão? Aquele que...

The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. You can only serve by love. You can only love by choice. True love cannot be the result...

[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus’ teaching.What is indiscriminate compassion? ‘Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for...

Tasks don’t have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These...

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with...

Whenever you get opportunity to serve, serve with all your heart.

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one’s ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.

Like a lot of other bashful introverts, I discovered that I like teaching a lot because it’s like acting. When I stepped into the classroom, I stepped into a role, one that allowed me to...

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

We have all been called to be foot-washers”. ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.

Love may challenge and love may correct but love will never shame. Love may call us out to uncomfortable places but love will never cast us aside. Love may demand but will never demean. Love...

Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded in biblical values, serves others by liberating them. It acknowledges that people bear...

Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word “servant”.

Some would define a servant like this: ‘A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.’ The human concept of a servant is that a...