The Easiest Thing to Do is Often the Hardest

SOURCE:  "The Bob Newhart Peace Plan" by Kevin Williamson, NRO. September 16, 2018
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/oslo-accords-anniversary-israel-palestinian-conflict/
KEYWORDS:  Sacrifice, Discipleship, Discipline, Ethics

"Jay Nordlinger likes to tell a story about “B-1 Bob” Dornan, the Republican congressman from California. He was a famously tough guy, an Air Force captain who survived two parachute bailouts in the Fifties and registered black voters in Mississippi in the Sixties. He said the hardest thing he ever did was quit smoking. But it’s the easiest thing in the world to do: You just stop it. Drinking, drugs, eating junk food — giving any of those up is a purely negative achievement. You just don’t do it anymore. Simple. 'Simple as a flower, and that’s a complicated thing.'"