One evening, while I was working outside in my yard, my neighbor came over. We weren’t really friends, but we had always spoken whenever we saw each other. Once, when my car wouldn’t start, he offered to drop me at the office. That night, though, he invited my wife and me to his church the following Sunday. His pastor had just begun speaking on what the Bible said about being an influential man. I wanted to be a man of influence. As the pastor spoke that morning, I knew that the influence and success I had achieved could never be enough. I understood that I was a sinner and could never pay the price of being “good enough” to deserve heaven. The only thing that really mattered was Jesus Christ and His death on the cross for MY sin. When he gave the invitation for us to accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, I knew that I needed to be saved, to accept Jesus and that His work was sufficient to assure me of God’s love for me and a place in heaven. I realized it was not enough to just know about Jesus, but that I needed to know Him, personally. I did accept Jesus Christ that Sunday and placed all of my faith in Him and His work on the cross and was baptized. I will always be grateful to my neighbor who invited me to attend church with him.
The topic Ivan Ilyich thinking about in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is that there are two kinds of life: the artificial life and the authentic life. Artificial life is represented by Ivan, Peter, Praskovya and almost all the people in the society of Ivan - it is marked by shallow relationships and materialism. Authentic life is represented by Gerasim.
With objective humor, Elder Browns Backslide highlights how pointless and meaningless the human experience can be if sedentary alienation and monotony drives social life to the extreme of becoming resigned or complacent. And also how beauty and bliss can come across from the most simple things.
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Athena's pride appears in just a few renditions of the narrative, and Arachne is doomed by hubris.
Hubris, the sin of excessive, self-centered hubris, lies at the heart of these sorts of myths, and most people continue to adhere to their contemporary, black-and-white, highly Judeo-Christian morality.
When dealing with Greek mythology, present morality becomes irrelevant.
My moral issue was whether to swallow my pride and embrace my father's family, or to maintain a distance from my father, knowing that this may impact and alter our family. I am completely aware of the ramifications of every decision I make prior to making it. When I was younger, I was always getting into problems for making rash judgments. As a result of what has occurred before, my mother has always taught me how a single deed may result in a great deal of confusion and disaster. As a result, I must discipline myself and determine whether it is the correct thing to do before making a choice.
In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', when Scout's class got out of control, Mrs Blount came in and calmed the class down.
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