Show Standard of Excellence At the height of his rus career Claude Monet the famed French painter destroyed 12 pictures of ofa a sheet of water the fruit of three years' years work because they did not rise to his standard If our sense of what is good in conduct were as high and sensitive as that of this artist we wo would be dissatisfied with many of the choices that we make How often we accept the second best simply because we have no standard of excellence 1 When we weare weare weare are too easily influenced by the crowd we st stop p short of the best our decisions are made in accordance accordance accordance accord accord- ance with poor human ideals in instead instead instead in- in stead of in obedience to the theof will of God |