Jesus once said:
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
– Matthew 5.16
Some other people have said:
It is striking that the early Quaker abolitionists and Christian pacifists in different ages had a public impact precisely by witness rather than by argument according to ‘publicly acceptable’ [...]
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I’m Gonna Let it Shine…
Posted in Apologetics, Etty Hillesum, Jesus, John Stackhouse Jr., New Testament, Stanley Hauerwas, William Placher on September 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Prosperity and Ethics
Posted in Altruism, Aristotle, Bertolt Brecht, Ethics, Greek Philosophy, Jesus, Money, New Testament on August 11, 2009 | 9 Comments »
For the present let this be our fundamental basis: the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.
– Aristotle, The Politics (tr. T. A. Sinclair), 1323b36 [...]
