Augustine on Being Displeased with Our Old Natures

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain that which you are not.

Carl Sandburg on Human Nature

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

—Author, poet Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)

Prostitute Resists Her Chance for Freedom

New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof chose two Cambodian prostitutes and attempted to buy their freedom from their brothel owners. He selected young ...

The Overlooked Volcano

Scores of people lost their lives. The world's mightiest army was forced to abandon a strategic base. Property damage approached a billion dollars. ...

The Worst Advice

About the worst advice you could give anybody is 'be yourself.'

Desperately Wicked

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often ...

The World Holds Us Back

It is true there is difficulty in entering into godliness. But this difficulty does not rise from the religion which begins in us, but only from the irreligion ...

Battle of Two Natures

The cuckoo is a common bird in England. The first sign of spring is that bird's call. The cuckoo never builds its own nest. When it feels an egg coming ...

Dual Nature

God had enough for a saint and a devil, and he put it all in me.

Room to Improve

When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his ...