Articles

Here are some interesting reference articles from various authors.

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Humility Makes Virtue Profitable

If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive the reward of his labor. The recompense is not given for labor but for humility. He who wrongs the latter loses the former.

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There Was No Inn in the Room

Every good story needs a villain—even a Sunday-School Christmas pageant.  Of course, the original Christmas story from Matthew and Luke had a super-villain: King Herod.  But for a Sunday School production, it doesn't really work to have grade-school kids acting out the Slaughter of the Innocents, so there isn't room for a Herod.  In his place, therefore, a new villain must be found. 

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