Douglas Young

The following Leo Tolstoy quote was found in Peter Steinke’s Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times: Being Calm and Courageous No Matter What. I wish I’d read this book several years ago.

“I know that most men…can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”