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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A
Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are 'subject' to authority. The one who is fully like us, who deeply understands our joys and pains or hopes and desires, and who is willing and able to walk with us, that is the one to whom we gladly give authority and whose 'subjects' we are willing to be.It is the compassionate authority that empowers, encourages, calls forth hidden gifts, and enables great things to happen. True spiritual authorities are located in the point of an upside-down triangle, supporting and holding into the light everyone they offer their leadership to.
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Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate
Recalling his mother's endless drudgery, {Senator} Richard {Russell} Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had "thought that mothers never had to sleep."
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Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord
He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?
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Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord
David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.
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Joseph J. Ellis _ Revolutionary Summer: The
The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.
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