Mark Beeson shared regarding Henry
Cloud’s new book, integrity: the courage to meet the
demands of reality.
“In that book Cloud tells the
story of a woman who asked him to speak with her adult sons. She wanted him to
meet them for lunch and talk with them about success. She pressed to know what
he would say to them.
Cloud made a couple of points,
then told her,
Now, having said that, let’s
get to the real issue that I would want to talk to them about. I would tell
them that the people who possess the first two abilities are a dime a dozen.
There is no shortage of talented brainy people who are very, very good at what
they do and are able to work the system and schmooze other people to get things
done. There are zillions of them, and we all see them every day. But if your
boys are truly going to make it, they have to have the third ingredient as
well:
They have to have the
character to not screw it up.
Proverbs 11:4-5
A thick bankroll is no help
when life falls apart ,but a principled life can stand up to the worst. Moral
character makes for smooth traveling; an evil life is a hard life.
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