Few statesmen have had the influence on the world stage as Henry Kissinger.
Serving under Presidents Nixon and Ford, this Harvard professor utilized the approach of realpolitik, the preference for power over morality.
It was said of Kissinger, who died this year at the age of 100, that “If he were 10% less intelligent and 10% more honest, he would be a great man.”
Well.
Here’s an idea: how about we choose morality over power, and honesty over disingenuousness?
We aren’t going to be Secretary of State...but we can all be honest, and worthy of trust.
The Hebrews writer notes that “it is impossible for God to lie...” (Heb. 6:18). It certainly isn’t impossible for people to lie, but it ought to be unthinkable.
No one is truly a great man or woman who is not honest.
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