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Let me tell you how really great is the challenge of proving your masculinity and charm with one woman for the rest of your life.
Ronald Reagan, in a letter to his son. -
In a student guide on note-taking, Utah State University reports that 95% of what you heard but failed to write down gets forgotten.
Gary North, Ph. D, How to take Classroom Notes -
The president reiterated his support for gay marriage. “I want everyone treated fairly in this country,” he explained, arguing that gay marriage “doesn’t weaken families, [but] strengthens families
The Examiner article, referring to a Obama. A sad era in American history. -
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
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ἀνδρίζομαι - a Greek verb meaning: “to make a man of, or make brave, to show one’s self a man”. Translated “Quit you like men” in 1 Corinthians 12:13
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When you switch away from a primary task to do something else, you’re increasing the time it takes to finish that task by an average of 25 per cent.
Tony Schwartz, The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time -
According to research led by Adam Galinsky, students who have lived abroad were much more likely to solve a classic insight puzzle. Their experience of another culture endowed them with a valuable open-mindedness.
Jonah Lehrer, How To Be Creative -
But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you’re afraid of erring, when others […] must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in a letter written during WWII. -
Remember marriage is not a contest – never keep a score. God has put the two of you together on the same team to win.
Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher, the longest married couple in the world (85yrs), when asked, “At the end of bad relationship day, what is the most important thing to remind yourselves?” -
I once was a little child who longed for other worlds, but I am no more a child for I have known fear. I have learned to hate. How tragic, then, is youth which lives with enemies, with gallows ropes. Yet, I still believe I only sleep today. That I’ll wake up, a child again, and start to laugh and play.
Excerpt from a note written by Hama Herchenberg, a 14yr old Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz, who died December 18, 1943 in the concentration camp. -
The peace of Christ is a great resource in helping us to know the will of God. Colossians 3:15 says, “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.” The word translated “rule” is the Greek word brabeuo, which means “to act as umpire.” Paul is urging the Colossians to so depend on the peace of Christ that it becomes an umpire in the decisions they have to make in life.
Do you have a problem, or a decision to make? Let the peace of Christ make that decision for you. If you have examined a planned action in the light of God’s Word—and His Word does not forbid you from going ahead with it—if you can do it and retain the peace of Christ in your heart, then do it with the confidence it is God’s will. But if you find you do not have a sense of peace and God’s blessing about it, don’t do it.
Don’t try to rationalize about your decision; you may find it makes good sense from the rational point of view. But will it rob your soul of rest and peace? Do you have a sense of confidence that God is in this? If you don’t have peace, it is probably the wrong thing to do. Let Christ’s peace be the umpire that makes the calls. That is how we are to govern our behavior.
John MacArthur, The Gift of Peace -
Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have often times been!
Major Sullivan Ballou, in a letter to his wife, a week before his death. -
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Forgiveness: there’s an app for that. The application of His blood to my guilty stains.
The quotelog of Daniel, the idiot.
