Inspiring and insightful, Our Better Angels: Seven Basic Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World celebrates the shared concepts that unite and allow us to get over life’s challenges together.

“When the waters rise, thus do our better angels.”-President Jimmy Carter

Jonathan Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Mankind, has seen time and again the effective benefits that arise when folks from all walks of life interact to help each other. In this uplifting reserve, he shares true about Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues that Will Change Your Life and the World stories of people associated with Habitat as volunteers and potential home owners who embody seven classic virtues-kindness, community, empowerment, pleasure, respect, generosity, and service-and displays how we can all practice these to improve the quality of our own lives as well as those around us.

A Vietnam veteran sees serenity where he was once engaged in battle. An impoverished single mother presents her family’s time and energy to enrich their neighbours’ lives. A Zambian category of nine surviving in a makeshift tent makes room to shelter even more. A teenager grieving for his mother honors her love and memory space by ensuring other folks have a location to call home. A former chief executive of america prospects by example with a motivated function ethic that motivates everyone around him to become the best edition of themselves.

These stories, and many more, illustrate how virtues become values, how cooperation becomes connection, and exactly how even the smallest act of compassion can encourage actions that transform the world all around us. Here are stories which will make readers have a good laugh and cry and embrace with passion the calling of our better angels to change the way we look after ourselves, our households, our communities, as well as the world.