“Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? Expediency asks the question – is it political? But conscience asks the question – it is right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is […]
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The Number “1”
In the annual National Prayer Breakfast in 1984, then President Reagan told the following story. In the fourth century, Telemarchus, an obscure monk from modern day Turkey felt an inner impulse to leave the quiet, monastic life of prayer and gardening and journey to Rome. Upon his arrival some weeks later he found himself […]