Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only love can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. Hatred paralyses life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illuminates it. I have decided to stick with love. Hatred is too great a burden to bear.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or as Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause and say, ‘Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well.’
Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
