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| Titre : | The Hunger for Significance |
| Auteurs : | Robert Charles Sproul, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | Reprint |
| Editeur : | Ventura [USA] : Regal Books, 1991 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8307-1495-7 |
| Format : | 275 p. |
| Note générale : | Formerly published under the title: In Search of Dignity (1983) |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | RC/B (Identité, estime de soi) |
| Résumé : |
Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important. And that hunger for significance—a drive as intense as our need for oxygen— doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God, because He wants each of us to understand how important we are.
Why then do most modem people earn1 with them an aching void—a pain that will not go away until we find the answer to our search for dignity? The emptiness we feel cannot be relieved by one more gourmet meal or another snort of cocaine. We carry water in a sieve when we try to fill the empty space with a better job or a bigger house. Dignity and significance are never found in plastic. We must search further and probe deeper if the haunting cries of indignity are to be silenced. Ours must be a transcendent quest— going beyond the trivial to the ultimate questions of our worth as human beings. It was Saint Augustine who declared that within each of us is a vacuum which must be filled. But how are we to fill it? We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. It is there that we will find meaningful answers. Written for anyone who shares the hunger for significance, this book explores the human cry for dignity, the hallowed longing for love and respect. It touches the aching void in the home, the school, the hospital, the prison, the church and the workplace. Wherever people come together, we can help each other discover self-worth. We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance—beings made in the image of God! The Hunger for Significance includes questions at the end of each chapter for personal reflection or group discussion. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Foreword (Charles W. Colson): “We must see ourselves—and one another—in light of the dignity He gives us. ”
- Preface: “The rigorous pursuit of our day is the search for dignity and personal worth.” - 1. Our Search for Personal Worth: “We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important. This inner drive is as intense as our needs for water and oxygen.” - 2. Our Search for Love: “Love which is passive only is a dead love, indeed no love at all but a mere indulgence in warm feelings.” - 3. Our Search for Dignity: “It is because God has assigned worth to man and woman that human dignity is established.” - 4. Dignity in the Home: “We can speak of the home as the cradle of human worth where love and respect must be carefully nurtured and jealously guarded.” - 5. Dignity in the School: "The respect shown to Jesus by His earthly pupils is the highest model we can find for the student teacher relationship. It was the quintessence of honor and the acme of respect.” - 6. Dignity in the Hospital: "Where the ill are valued, the whole of human dignity is elevated. ” - 7. Dignity in the Prisons: "At issue in criminal justice is the basic dignity of a person and his property.” - 8. Dignity in the Church: "Where the pain in a community festers is where the Church should be.” - 9. The Marxist Option: "The Christian agenda for human dignity is not a revolution.... We want change, but we choose the model of reformation rather than revolution.” - 10. Dignity in the Workplace: "Where human dignity is cultivated in a work environment, increased production and higher quality are its inevitable byproducts.” |
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