videi watched this video this afternoon, and it was so wonderful, i wanted to share! this is also the first time i've figured out how to include a video in a post, so i hope it works :)
made me teary :)
and here's a quote i read the other day. it's from a sermon given by george w. truett in 1920:
God does not raise up a nation to go strutting selfishly, forgetful of the high interests of humanity. national selfishness leads to destruction as truly as does individual selfishness. nations can no more live to themselves than can individuals. humanity is bound up together in the big bundle of life. the world is now one big neighborhood. there are no longer any hermit nations. national isolation is no longer possible in the earth. the markets of the world instantly register every commercial change. an earthquake in asia is at once registered in washington city. the people on one side of the world may not dare be indifferent to the people on the other side. every man of us is called to be a world citizen, and to think and act in world terms. the nation that insists upon asking that old murderous question of cain, "am i my brother's keeper?" the question of the profiteer and the question of the slacker, is a nation marked for decay and doom and death. the parable of the good samaritan is heaven's law for nations as well as for individuals. some things are worth dying for, and if they are worth dying for they are worth living for.
challenging words, my friends.
made me teary :)
and here's a quote i read the other day. it's from a sermon given by george w. truett in 1920:
God does not raise up a nation to go strutting selfishly, forgetful of the high interests of humanity. national selfishness leads to destruction as truly as does individual selfishness. nations can no more live to themselves than can individuals. humanity is bound up together in the big bundle of life. the world is now one big neighborhood. there are no longer any hermit nations. national isolation is no longer possible in the earth. the markets of the world instantly register every commercial change. an earthquake in asia is at once registered in washington city. the people on one side of the world may not dare be indifferent to the people on the other side. every man of us is called to be a world citizen, and to think and act in world terms. the nation that insists upon asking that old murderous question of cain, "am i my brother's keeper?" the question of the profiteer and the question of the slacker, is a nation marked for decay and doom and death. the parable of the good samaritan is heaven's law for nations as well as for individuals. some things are worth dying for, and if they are worth dying for they are worth living for.
challenging words, my friends.
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