Life is consequential

Life is consequential. We are punished not so much for as by our sins. We do not so much break the Ten Commandments as we are borken on them. Consequential for us as individuals, life is even more so for the nations of this nuclear world. Hadn't we better learn to be merciful when we live at each other's mercy? If we do not learn to be meek, will there be any earth for anyone to inherit?

"Creedo" by William Sloane Coffin