- Bertrand Russell
“I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined.”
- Bertrand Russell
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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
The following excerpt is taken from "New Life Everyday:"
They call it the marshmallow test. Researchers at Stanford University ran a test in the 1960s. A researcher would say to four-year-olds: 'I am leaving for a few minutes to run an errand, and you can have this marshmallow while I am gone, but if you wait until I return, you can have two marshmallows.' A dozen years later, the researchers restudied the same children and found that those who'd grabbed the single marshmallow tended to be more troubled as adolescents, and they scored an average of 210 points less on SATtests. We teach our children to say their ABC's, to say please and thank you, their Bible verses, hymns, and how to tie their shoes and all these are great things. But never underestimate the value of instilling self-control and delayed gratification. Self control and delayed gratification are often missing in our training. Usually we fail because we lean on our own power. Remember, self-control is a fruit of the spirit so if you truly seek to operate under the power of the Holy Spirit, self control will be evident in your life. - Steve Arterburn 'What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.' - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) Blessings. "God renews our lives by renewing our minds, and he renews our minds through his truth. This truth is the Word of God."
- Warren Wiersbe “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
- C.S. Lewis 'Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving"
- Colossians 3:23-24 "Please God, don’t move that mountain, but give me the strength to climb it. Supplement my will and empower me, because true wealth and success demand responsibility and ownership of my current situation. In order to lead, I must be the anchor to my family, my team, my friends, and my business."
I wrote this over a year ago and forgot it until this evening. I checked it on Google and was surprised I actually wrote it, and didn't quote it from someone else. That said, it speaks to me and I hope it speaks to you. Blessings always. "We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
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