The Power of Servant-Leadership

Foreword

PETER B. VAILL, UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS

In a favorite book of meditations, John Thom, a 19th-century clergyman, is quoted as follows:

The real corrupters of society may be, not the corrupt, but those who have held back the righteous leaven, the salt that has Lost its savor, the innocent who have not even the moral courage to show what they think of the effrontery of impurity, the serious, who yet timidly succeed before some loud-voiced scoffer—the heart trembling all over with religious sensibilities that yet suffers itself through false shame to be beaten down into outward and practical acquiescence by some rude and worldly nature. (Tileston, 1934, p. 221)

Bob Greenleaf could have written this paragraph. He might have been a little ...