To this I would add a line: \u201cif you aspire to holiness, you will fail, and others will call you a hypocrite. Aspire to holiness anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
The full text of that poem is below. It has often been mistakenly attributed to Mother Theresa (a version was published in her book A Simple Path<\/em>, where it was said to be from a sign posted on a wall). The Paradoxical Commandments<\/p>\n People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Give the world the best you have and you\u2019ll get kicked in the teeth. When I was young, a poem that held a lot of inspiration for me was \u201cthe paradoxical commandments\u201d. This contained a series of statements to the effect that the good you do will be destroyed, but do it anyway. For example, \u201cWhat you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.\u201d To this I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[224,225],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-sayings","tag-kent-keith","tag-the-paradoxical-commandments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe original collection of sayings were created by a college student named Kent M. Keith and published in 1968 in a pamphlet titled \u201cThe Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council\u201d.
\n(Source: The Quote Investigator<\/a>.)<\/p>\n
\nLove them anyway.<\/p>\n
\nDo good anyway.<\/p>\n
\nSucceed anyway.<\/p>\n
\nDo good anyway.<\/p>\n
\nBe honest and frank anyway.<\/p>\n
\nThink big anyway.<\/p>\n
\nFight for a few underdogs anyway.<\/p>\n
\nBuild anyway.<\/p>\n
\nHelp people anyway.<\/p>\n
\nGive the world the best you have anyway.<\/em><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"