Leaders and Courage

My new The High Calling article is now up: "Good Leaders Need Courage."

Find the rest of my The High Calling articles here.

Comments

[Eric Blauer]

Good article you linked, I read this quote this morning, I know it could bristle a few feathers but I think there is some real truth to it...courage is needed in more areas than work and ministry for most.

"But marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirit of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being…..The air of the fireside withers out all the fire wildings of the husband’s heart. He is so comfortable and happy that he begins to prefer comfort and happiness to everything else on earth, his wife included. Yesterday he would have shared his last shilling; today, “his first duty is to his family,” and is fulfilled in large measure by laying down vintages and husbanding the health of an invaluable parent. Twenty years ago this man was equally capable of crime or heroism; now he is fit for neither. His soul is asleep, and you may speak without constraint; you will not wake him.” -Robert Louis Stevenson