Emphasis Preaching Journal

A reporter was interviewing a man with a rags-to-riches story. He asked the man how the change in his circumstances had affected his life. The man thought for a moment and said, "It was much easier to resist temptation when I had little means of taking advantage of it."

Lord Acton wrote, "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." (Lord Acton in Letters to Bishop Mandell Creighton, as quoted by Eleanor Doan, Sourcebook for Speakers, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1968, p. 291.)