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The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.


Marcus J. Borg

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MARCUS AURELIUS Men exist for the sake of one another.
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushli...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them...
MARCUS AURELIUS Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that tim...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUS He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds g...
MARCUS AURELIUS Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against ma...
MARCUS AURELIUS Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for w...
MARCUS ANTONIUS When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
MARCUS AURELIUS Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a mi...
MARCUS AURELIUS Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
STANLEY MARCUS When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and...
MARCUS AURELIUS Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is unc...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, yo...
MARCUS GARVEY