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Different communities develop different sets of behaviors for this purpose. By demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice for the community’s well-being, and deference to its authorities and customs, members of a community convince others that they are good types who can be depended on to cooperate for the long term.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
In the midst of this psychological climate Jesus began his teaching and his ministry.
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
The basic principles of his way of life cut straight through to the despair of his fellows and found it groundless. By inference he says, “You must abandon your fear of each other and fear only God. You must not indulge in any deception and dishonesty, even to save your lives. Your words must be Yea—Nay; anything else is evil. Hatred is destructive
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it was the size of the community that was nearest to 150.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
It is always painful for me, as it is for most prison chaplains, to see a man or a woman attacked so directly in the courtroom, all in an effort to pile as many collateral accusations on the defendant as possible, the implication being that he or she is intrinsically evil. It is difficult because we have come to know and love the person, perhaps ha
... See moreGary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
The sermon now needed to enter the personality of the listener. And Henry realized that the only key that fit the lock of individual personality was personality itself.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
VIKTOR E. FRANKL was PROFESSOR OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY at the University of Vienna and, for 25 years, head of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic. The Logotherapy/Existential Analysis founded by him is also known as the Third Viennese Direction of Psychotherapy. He held visiting professorships at Harvard University, Stanford, Dallas and Pittsbur
... See moreViktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
Robert Hare, a leading researcher, defines psychopathy by two sets of features. There’s the unusual stuff that psychopaths do—impulsive antisocial behavior, beginning in childhood—and there are the moral emotions that psychopaths lack. They feel no compassion, guilt, shame, or even embarrassment, which makes it easy for them to lie, and to hurt fam
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