Tuesday, August 6, 2019

“Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.” – Timothy Keller

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
6 August

You’ve heard the story of the captain on the ship’s bridge on a foggy night who is warned there is a light dead ahead. So he sends out the following message: “Change course 30 degrees to starboard.” The message comes back, “You change course 30 degrees to starboard.” Unaccustomed to being told what to do, he sends the following reply: “This is a captain, you change course.” And the message comes back, “This is a lighthouse; you change course.”

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