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The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Speaker: Garrison KeillorPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
“Remember,” Khader said insistently, resting his hand on my forearm to emphasize his words. “Sometimes it is necessary to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and that we admit the wrong – that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that what we do is right.”
…Once before he’d tormented me with that phrase. I chewed at it, in my mind, as a bear will chew at a leather strap that binds it by the leg. In my life, the wrong things were almost always done for the wrong reasons. Even the right things that I did were too often goaded by the wrong reasons.