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Character

2006-03-10T07:44:00.000-08:00

"The reward of suffering is experience."
-Aeschylus

On Character

2006-02-03T06:27:00.000-08:00

"Character, not circumstances, makes the man."
-Booker T. Washington

On Intellectual Pride

2006-01-30T07:42:00.000-08:00

"Atheism is the opiate of the elitest."
-b, in response to reading, for the umpteenth time, an intellectually proud person dismiss out of hand the idea of religious faith, by quoting Marx's famous quote about religion being the opiate of the masses.

On Character

2006-01-27T07:28:00.000-08:00

"Nobility is not a birthright. It is defined by your actions."
-unknown

On Taking Action

2006-01-25T07:15:00.000-08:00

"To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters."
-unknown

Super Bowl Time!

2006-01-23T08:00:00.000-08:00

Pub

2006-01-23T07:57:00.000-08:00

"I run because I chose rock instead of paper."
-The Miller beer runner

Priorities

2006-01-23T07:23:00.000-08:00

"The one real priority in life is to do the right thing."
-unknown

On Being Two-Faced

2006-01-19T08:53:00.000-08:00

"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

On Solving Problems

2006-01-18T14:06:00.000-08:00

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
-Albert Einstein

On Who You Are

2006-01-18T07:26:00.000-08:00

"Identity is destiny."
-Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit.
I would refer you to the quote at the top of the page under coheir@blogspot.com from the Bible. This is who I am.

Fighting Evil

2006-01-17T07:48:00.000-08:00

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke

MLK Jr.

2006-01-16T18:43:00.000-08:00

"The chief end of life is not to seek pleasure and avoid pain. It is to do the will of God, come what may."

On Propaganda and the Human Heart

2006-01-16T09:11:00.000-08:00

"Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred
than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?"
-Bertrand Russell

On Greed

2006-01-12T07:37:00.000-08:00

"If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too."
-Thomas Fuller

Bought With A Price

2006-01-11T06:52:00.000-08:00

"Everything good and excellent stands moment by moment on the razor's edge of danger; and must be fought for."
-author unknown

On Leadership

2006-01-09T23:25:00.000-08:00

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, another most rocking book, which C.S. Lewis credited with convincing him there is a God.

On Patience

2006-01-09T07:40:00.000-08:00

"What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast."
-May Sarton

Influences

2006-01-06T07:32:00.000-08:00

"The hands of many are pressed into the molding of a life."
-Sidney Poitier, upon receiving a lifetime achievment award, telling about a man, whose name he does not know, who through patience, taught him to read.

What Counts

2006-01-04T16:32:00.000-08:00

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
-Albert Einstein

On Investing In Life II

2006-01-03T07:13:00.000-08:00

"The successful man has enthusiasim. Good work is never done in cold blood; heart is needed to forge anything. Every great achievment is the story of a flaming heart."
-Harry Truman

Testimony

2005-12-31T13:12:00.000-08:00

"I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife, I love my life, and I wish you my kind of success."
-Dicky Fox

On Pacing Yourself

2005-12-31T08:00:00.000-08:00

"I like to start slow, and then taper off."
-R. Cummins

On Changing

2005-12-30T09:11:00.000-08:00

"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."
-Oscar Wilde

On Pride

2005-12-29T00:09:00.000-08:00

"Ignorance is the first penalty of pride."
-H.G. Wells

On Troubles

2005-12-28T09:10:00.000-08:00

"Stop telling God how big your storms are, and start telling your storms how big your God is."
-unknown to me

On Vertebrates and Crustaceans

2005-12-28T08:25:00.000-08:00

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. But these modern cowards are all crustaceans; their hardness is all on the cover, and their softness is inside.
-G.K. Chesterton

On Christianity and Courage

2005-12-07T09:07:00.000-08:00

"Christianity alone has felt that God to be wholly God, must have been a rebel as well as a king. Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point- and does not break."
-G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, a most rocking book voted many times onto the top books lists on spirituality written in the 20th century. First Published in 1908, you can read it entirely online.

On Worrying

2005-12-06T07:23:00.000-08:00

"Ain't no sense worrying: If you have no control over something, ain't no sense worrying about it, you have no control over it anyway. If you do have control, why worry? So either way, there ain't no sense worrying."
-Mickey Rivers

Do You Believe?

2005-12-02T08:49:00.000-08:00

"Took the chance that giving is better than receiving."
-"This Christmas"-by Tobymac

On Investing In Life

2005-11-28T18:02:00.000-08:00

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly; who knows the great enthusiasims, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt

On Who You Hang Out With

2005-11-28T17:57:00.000-08:00

"He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm."
-Proverbs 13:20

Foundations

2005-11-28T17:42:00.000-08:00

"The fundamental things apply, as time goes by."
-an old song

On Courage

2005-11-28T11:29:00.000-08:00

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarntees all the others."
-Winston Churchill

Alone or Not

2005-11-28T08:57:00.000-08:00

"If you treat people right you will never be alone."
- Something an old man, a patient in an emergency room that day, once told me.

On Courage

2005-11-28T08:46:00.000-08:00

"My brother was in the room. He looked at me and said, 'We are Christians. We've got to go help him out,' and I said, 'Right.' Then he went and got his keys."
-Lie Yuille, testifying at the Reginald Denney beating trial in Los Angeles, on why she and other African-Americans helped rescue the fallen truckdriver after seeing him on local TV coverage of the April 1992 riots.

On Heaven

2005-11-26T09:10:00.000-08:00

"Eternity is the eve of something."
-G.K. Chesterton, Heretics, 1905

On Love

2005-11-26T09:00:00.000-08:00

"The thing we forget most often about the anatomy of love is this: The heart is connected to the backbone."
-Judith Stone

On Lies

2005-11-26T08:55:00.000-08:00

"A real liar does not tell wanton and unecessary lies. He tells nice and necessary lies."
G.K. Chesterton,

On Changing

2005-11-26T08:52:00.000-08:00

"Virtue- even attepmted virtue- brings light; indulgence brings fog."
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

On Vision and Courage

2005-11-25T09:41:00.000-08:00

"Vision without courage will never be more than a nice dream."
-Tim Hansel

To Men

2005-11-22T17:15:00.000-08:00

"The greatest want of the world is the want of men.
Men who will not be bought or sold.
Men who in their inmost souls are true and honest.
Men who do not fear to call sin by its right name.
Men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle is to the pole.
Men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall."
-Author Unknown

Quiet Desperation

2005-11-20T16:38:00.000-08:00

"The old saying is that 'most people live lives of quiet desperation.' I tend to voice my desperation."
-an old friend (and he does!)

On Wisdom

2005-11-17T22:56:00.000-08:00

" 'And what is this valley called?'
'We call it now simply Wisdom's Valley, but the oldest maps mark it as the Valley of Humiliation.' "
-C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

On Fairy Tales

2005-11-16T21:47:00.000-08:00

"If one does the thing forbidden, one imperils all the things provided. This is the profound morality of fairy tales."
-G.K. Chesterton

Choosing Joy

2005-11-16T09:00:00.000-08:00

"Happiness is circumstantial. If I pay off my car, I'm happy. If I get a new shirt, I'm happy. If my friends say nice things, I'm happy.
There is nothing wrong with happiness. It's wonderful. The only problem is that it's based on circumstances, and circumstances have a tendency to shift.
Joy, on the other hand, is something which defies circumstances and occurs in spite of difficult situations. Whereas happiness is a feeling, joy is an attitude. A posture. A position. A place. As Paul Sailhammer says, 'Joy is that deep settled confidence that God is in control of every area of my life.'
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. God has given us such immense freedom that he will allow us to be as miserable as we want to be."
-Tim Hansel, You Gotta Keep Dancin'

"Stick Close To Jesus" - Mark Driscoll

2005-11-15T21:47:00.000-08:00

"So reformission requires that God's people understand their mission with razor-sharp clarity. The mission is to be close to Jesus. This transforms our hearts to love what he loves, hate what he hates, and to pursue relationships with lost people in hopes of connecting with them and, subsequently, connecting them with him. This actually protects us from sin, because the way to avoid sin is not to avoid sinners but to stick close to Jesus."
-Mark Driscoll, The Radical Reformission

2005-11-12T18:36:00.000-08:00

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