From Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter:
Reinhold Niebuhr, in his book Moral Man and Immoral Society, pointed out the difference between a society and people. The expectations from a person are a much higher standard. A person should have as our goal complete agape, self-sacrificial love. The most we can expect from a society is to institute simple justice.
A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people and our country want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.
Agape was a new word to me. The definitions I found were love and love feast. Not to be confused with agape, wide open or in a state of wonder.
