April 29, 2005
Friday
'A life of service is a life of significance'
Who said this:
I leave you with this challenge: serve a neighbour in need, because a life of service is a life of significance. Because materialism ultimately is boring, and consumerism can build a prison of wants. Because a person who is not responsible for others is a person who is truly alone. Because there are few better ways to express our love for America than to care for other Americans. And because the same God who endows us with individual rights also calls us to social obligations.
Was it Martin Luther King? Or Lyndon Johnson? No, it was
George Bush in a speech to students at Notre Dame University in 2001. The passage is quoted admiringly in Tim Montgomerie's pamphlet Whatever happened to compassionate conservatism? published by the Centre for Social Justice. It is an interesting read for anyone concerned with public policy on welfare and other related matters.
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in General
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