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What does it mean?
Love is more valuable than knowledge alone.
In plain terms
Kindness outweighs information.
What can you take from it?
Prioritize relationships over facts.

Where it applies

  • teaching
  • counseling
  • leadership

Putting it to work

  • lead with heart
  • share care
  • avoid arrogance

Questions to consider

  • How do you balance heart and mind?
  • What is more important?

Another view

Knowledge is essential for solving complex problems.

More from John Wesley

  1. The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself, and less from others. Go thou and do likewise!

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  2. Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.

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  3. Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

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