Competition

I thought I would quote this at length from an article in my old student newspaper, Varsity. Here goes:

"Every ability that you think you possess, or lack, is really a gratuitous and inexplicable gift. To be proud of your qualities is ridiculous as bragging about your presents as you sit around the Christmas tree. You can be grateful for your presents, you can be pleased, but the one thing you can't be is smug. Envy, likewise, loses all meaning in the religious context. The fact that someone else is funnier or taller than you is not really a fact about them; it is certainly not something they can claim credit for.

God's gifts are like a Lottery win, in that you cannot sanely believe that your good fortune results from your own merit."  (Dan Hitchens)

Love,

Zeal