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“The genius of this conception is that as people become more dependent on God, their capacity for ambition and action increases. Dependency doesn’t breed passivity; it breeds energy and accomplishment”
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The Road to Character

The Road to Character

by David Brooks

In today’s world, the road to character has a much less defined map than the road to external succ...

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‘The secret of life,’ the sculptor Henry Moore once said, ‘is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of every day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.’
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The Second Mountain

The Second Mountain

by David Brooks

David Brooks is one of the nations’ leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for...
‘One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character,’ the British educator Sir Richard Livingstone wrote. ‘More often it is due to an inadequate ideal.’ So one job of a teacher was, in this educational model, to hold up exemplars. ‘I make honorable things pleasant to children,’ a Spartan educator put it. When the students emerged from school they would have had at least some contact with the best things human beings have thought and done.
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The Second Mountain

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‘Good people will mirror goodness in us, which is why we love them so much, Richard Rohr writes. ‘Not-so-mature people will mirror their own unlived and confused lives onto us.’
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“The first step to greatness is to be honest.”
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“The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. ... Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life and is remedied by exercise and motion.”
Samuel Johnson
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“The purpose of the struggle against sin and weakness is not to ‘win.’ Because that is not possible; it is to get better at waging it.”
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