Friends & Colleagues
On a whim, I wrote to a cross-section of our leaders and celebrities requesting that they tell us what passage of the BIBLE they find most moving and touches their lives most directly.. The response was remarkable – all except 2 replied. Jill Biden emailed that unfortunately Joe was using the holidays to catch up on his napping. Kamala Harris said that she was busily occupied sending New Year’s cards to the legions of donors to whom Willie Brown had introduced her over the years. It is comforting to see that the people who shape the world we live in spend Christmas week immersed in the Good Book to draw spiritual uplift and inspiration to guide them in the year ahead.
Cheers
Michael Brenner
SCRIPTURE
“Seek – and ye will find” EXXONMobil CEO Darren WOODS
“Ask – and you shall be given” EU Council President Charles MICHEL (beseeching Russia to bail them out of their energy mess)
“In the beginning, there was darkness” Ted LAKE Chairman, Texas Public Utility Commission
“Let there be light!” – Greg ABBOTT to Ted Lake
“Temptation, get Thee behind them” Mike PENCE (re. Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo, Ron DeSantis)
“It is more blessed to give than to receive” Jerome POWELL, Chairman U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
“The Meek shall inherit the Earth” Charlie SCHUMER
“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged” Robert MUELLER
“Forgive them; for they know not what they do” William BARR
“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.” ~ Hillary CLINTON
“To sin is human, to forgive is Divine” Ghislaine MAXWELL
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.” Victoria NULAND
“Except ye become as little children, ye will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” ~ Mark ZUCKERBERG
“Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it” EU Commission President Ursula von der LEYDEN
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” Barack OBAMA
“The last shall be first, and the first shall be last” Christopher JOHNSON Owner, New York Jets
“Put not your trust in princes.” Mikhail GORBACHEV
“Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge” Victims of RITTENHOUSE, EPSTEIN/MAXWELL, HOUSE, TRUMP, KUSHNER
“The kingdom of God is within you.” Oprah WINFREY
“With Faith, everything is possible” MEGHAN MERKLE
“And a child shall lead them” Tony BLINKEN
“He that endureth to the end shall be saved.” ~ Bernie SANDERS
“Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” Donald TRUMP
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” Boris JOHNSON
“Why hast Thou abandoned me?” Volodymyr ZELENSKY