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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Speaker: Russell GreenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
So often we feel, implicitly, that we are doing God a favor if we do his work, that we are helping him along when, in fact, our performance properly undertaken is for the welfare of our soul, not his! It is our happiness and our growth he seeks! How wonderful it could be to pray that what we do would be mindstretching and soul-expanding. Such genuine, prayerful forethought could also reduce the less-than-necessary tasks we do that are trivial and could lessen the number of right things we do for the wrong reasons.