[Mahler]

Mahler’s Monday Morning Motivator # 59 – An Ordinary Man

I will be brief this morning. To myself and to millions around the world, he was known as the pope, the holy father, the vicar of Christ and a host of other titles. Witnessing how even more countless millions are responding to his death, it is easy to see that when you come right down to it, he was just an ordinary man; an ordinary man who touched hearts, souls and consciences around the globe. Here is a sampling of some of his wisdom.

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"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision."

"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."

"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."

"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it"

"Anything done for another is done for oneself."

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."

"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."

"The future starts today, not tomorrow."

"I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin."

"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others."

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded."

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

"Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons."

"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."

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In Fitness & Friendship,
Mahler