| Just as Christ in His love spared not His own life,
so I do not cut corners in the service of others.
I expend great effort to track down the facts.
Just as God in His providence governs the tiniest atomic
particles, I pay attention to details.
I know that mediocrity in the pursuit of accuracy leads to
falsehood and the triumph of lies.
Because I work with great accuracy, I am of greater service to
others.
Acts 18:25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord;
and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the
things of the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John.
Acts 18:26 So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When
Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained
to him the way of God more accurately.
Acts 24:22 But when Felix heard these things, having more
accurate knowledge of the Way, he adjourned the proceedings and
said, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will make a
decision on your case."
George Washington's understanding was lucid and his
judgment accurate,
so that his conduct never betrayed hurry or confusion. No detail
was too minute for his personal inquiry and continued supervision;
and at the same time he comprehended events in their widest
aspects and relations. He never seemed above the object that
engaged his attention, and he was always equal, without an effort,
to the solution of the highest questions affecting the destiny of
mankind, even when there existed no precedents to guide his
decision. In the perfection of the reflective powers he had no
peer.
George Bancroft, History of the United States,
Vol.4, p.208
This isn't that New Age
"Positive Thinking" stuff, is it??
In this last revision, as in the first composition, it
is the fixed purpose to secure perfect accuracy
in the relation of facts, even to their details and their
coloring, and to keep truth clear from the clouds, however
brilliant, of conjecture and tradition. No well-founded criticism
that has been seen, whether made here or abroad, with a good will
or a bad one, has been neglected.
George Bancroft, History of the United States,
Vol.1, Preface
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