... success we envy, or those who have hurt us, are re-run so frequently that there is no time to get on with the business of living today. They live according to the philosophy of the 17th century French epigrammist Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld who insisted that "Were it not for the misfortunes of our friends, life would be unbearable" (200). What events in your life or the life of your congregation are endlessly subjected to the "coulda, woulda, shoulda" scenario? Are there missed opportunities or ill ...
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
