Tag: Character & Virtue

Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that...

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through I see the face of God. – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for...

There is a great scene in the comedy film O Brother, Where Art Thou? that speaks to the subject of sin and obedience. After escaped convicts Pete and...

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of...

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when...

Is free enterprise based on greed? Friends and foes of free enterprise often claim greed is its basis. Writer Ayn Rand even claimed that selfishness is a virtue...

We read in Genesis that God created the heavens and the earth ex nihilo, out of nothing, and that all he had made was good (Genesis 1:4, 10,...

If giving to charity makes you feel good, are your motivations selfish? This question came up at a local IFWE book club meeting last week as we discussed...

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to...

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