Showing posts with label Member or Believer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Member or Believer. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 May 2016

MEMBER, OR BELIEVER?


"An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes." - Victor Kiam
 
 
It is very common - lately I've discovered - to find people everywhere, who will only want to identify with the good, or benefits ONLY in any venture, but not with the consequences. As a result we are faced with a situation where we only have 'members' those who just belong, instead of 'believers,' people who are down with the full package.

A number of years ago Norman Cousins wrote an editorial in Saturday Review in which he reported a conversation he had on a trip in India. He was talking with a Hindu priest named Satis Prasad. The man said he wanted to come to our country to work as a missionary among the Americans. Cousins assumed that he meant that he wanted to convert Americans to the Hindu religion, but when asked, Satis Prasad said, "Oh no, I would like to convert them to the Christian religion. Christianity cannot survive in the abstract. It needs not membership, but believers. The people of your country may claim they believe in
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