Thomas à Kempis on Accepting Others

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you want them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

—Thomas à Kempis

The Honor of Early Adoption

The notion that "the first will be last" doesn't seem to bother some folks. When Apple's revolutionary iPhone hit the market in late ...

Strong Man Can't Carry Himself

A strong young man at a construction site was bragging that he could outdo anyone in a feat of strength. He made a special case of making fun of one of ...

Three Men Suffer from Messianic Complex

Psychologist Milton Rokeach wrote a book called The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. He described his attempts to treat three patients at a psychiatric hospital ...

Bob Knight Did Things His Way

On January 1, 2007, Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight won his 880th game—the most by any coach in men's Division I college basketball history. ...

Chesterton on Misplaced Modesty

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has settled on the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant ...

Chesterton on Humility

Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Only God Is Great

In 1717, King Louis XIV of France died. Preferring to be called "Louis the Great," he was the monarch who declared, "I am the State!" ...

Benjamin Franklin's Moral System Leads to Pride

Even the best of humanists devise systems of ungrace to replace those rejected in religion. Benjamin Franklin settled on 13 virtues, including:

Silence: ...

Francis Schaeffer on Compassion for Today's Artists

Many Christians find themselves put off by the different forms of modern art. However, whenever I witness modern art or listen to depressing modern music ...