A man once went to see a prophet and said, "Prophet, why do you bother? You have been prophesying for over fifteen years, and still things are the same. Why do you keep going?"
The prophet replied, "Don’t you know? I’m not prophesying to change the world, but to prevent the world from changing me"
Source: Adapted from Henri Nouwen, Leadership Magazine interview (Winter 1982)
Topics: character, compromise, conformity, peer pressure, sanctification, transformation, world, worldiness