Chuck Feeney, cofounder of Duty Free Shoppers and multibillionaire, is now broke. For most, this would mean too many private islands purchased, but for Feeney, it’s the achievement of a lifelong dream.
He’s given away about $8 billion, without fanfare, often anonymously.
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
Dave Anderson, author of Becoming a Leader of Character, wrote about one defining moment for some friends of a famous politician.
A popular artist once found himself in the position to observe those in power who were patrons of his work. These men he watched day in and day out were wealthy merchants, Italian noblemen and French kings.
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
