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| e8aed6a | If your lifestyle makes you wonder if Jesus really is your King, that is actually a good thing. You are understanding the truth. But you should also be amazed that the King never stops inviting you to himself and his kingdom. That is either very weird, or it's holy. If someone kept offering you a free invitation to a grand and expensive party, and you kept shoving it back in his face, at some point the host would stop making the offer. But .. | grace inspirational | Edward T. Welch | |
| 010e460 | When the only one who has a right to be angry chooses love and service, when He considers the interests of others more important than His own and chooses humility-He changes everything (p. 55). | humility jesus | Edward T. Welch | |
| cd489ad | Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 35123e6 | others, and so on. And anything that is opposed to God in our lives is actually one of the many gods of the kingdom of earth. You will always be running scared if you worship other gods, because idols can't deliver on their promises. In the Old Testament, the choice before | Edward T. Welch | ||
| a5577f1 | When your wants become needs, it means that you have put your trust in people. They have become like a god to you. Yet, for some reason, the true God is patient with you. Although you might reject him, he doesn't reject you. And this is everyone's story. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| def8c3e | What does your worship look like? Anxiety, despair, shopping, primping, acting like someone you aren't, acting stupid when you are smart, or acting like you don't care when you do? Why do you do it? You are hoping that, if you worship it correctly, the idol will give you what you want. But idols are notoriously slow in responding. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| a46d950 | Therefore, we cannot rightly say, "My God is not a God of judgment and anger; my God is a God of love." Such thinking makes it almost impossible to grow in the fear of the Lord. It suggests that sin only saddens God rather than offends him. Both justice and love are expressions of his holiness, and we must know both to learn the fear of the Lord." | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 9e8c40a | If we look only at God's love, we will not need him, and there will be no urgency in the message of the cross. If we focus narrowly on God's justice, we will want to avoid him, and we will live in terror-fear, always feeling guilty and waiting for punishment. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 5c2ac91 | Worry's magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| 5df0806 | Are you worried? Jesus says there is nothing to worry about. It isn't our kingdom, it's God's. We take our cue from the King, and the King is not fretting over anything. He is in complete control. | worry | Edward T. Welch | |
| b6a0cd2 | This was Paul's joy in suffering and shame: "that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead" (Philippians 3:10-11). Notice how this affects your shameful past. It will still hurt at times, but shame will lose its power. The very event that made you an outcast is the one that gives you insight into the .. | Edward T. Welch | ||
| e58d73c | the basic spiritual truth that men are brothers in the sight of God | Bayard Rustin | ||
| 2837c69 | Literalmente nos habian despojado de todo cuanto llevabamos excepto de los trapos con que nos cubriamos el cuerpo. Los pequenos regalos recibidos, que me hubiera llevado a los Estados Unidos y legado a mis nietos, habian sido destruidos. Tenia ante mi una eleccion: reaccionar con lamentaciones o con resignacion. ?Era un intercambio justo, mis unicas posesiones materiales a cambio de una leccion inmediata sobre el desapego? Me dijeron que pr.. | experiencia materialismo objetos posesiones | Marlo Morgan | |
| 4669e09 | In Australien ist man der amerikanischen Zeit um siebzehn Stunden voraus. Man fliegt also buchsnachstablich in den nachsten Tag hinein. Wahrend des Fluges erinnerte ich mich daran, dass wir sicher sein konnten, dass es die Welt am nachsten Tag noch geben und alles in Ordnung sein wurde! Auf dem Kontinent, der vor uns lag, war es schon >morgen<. | Marlo Morgan | ||
| b52242b | I now know we each have two lives: the one we learn by and the one we live after that. The | Marlo Morgan | ||
| ca32b07 | that where now there are two cases once there were 159, the rest having been destroyed by the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1944. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| 46f1793 | Aristotle says that 'nature makes instruments to fit the function, not the function to fit the instrument'. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| 67e92c5 | No one cranks the clockwork, no one points the little machine in the right direction - nature does. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| 3cb8f94 | In 2010 JCVI-syn1.0, the world's first artificial cellular life form, fired its molecular motors. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| 5654b84 | The distinction between artefact and organism dissolved in a Petri dish. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| cbe6780 | When, therefore, we ask what ageing is for we must give the peculiar answer that it isn't for anything; it is, instead, the evolved consequence of there being no reason to stay alive. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| d6a0c8c | I will not allow the Athenians to commit a second crime against philosophy. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| e09b519 | the ability of, say, a male praying mantis to continue coitus even as his mate chews off his head makes the point. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| e181aaf | Elected officials deposed each other by lawsuits. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| 8466def | From this point of view, a male cuttlefish who copulates with a dead female is not only wasting his time but making a serious philosophical mistake. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| 200b58c | I was curious to know whether it still had its testicles, | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| 7429d1c | I should have had to look under its | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| 464506d | Those who have spent time arguing instead of studying things as they are show all too clearly that they are incapable of seeing much at all. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| 35aa197 | A man could find himself in court on trivial or trumped-up charges, his fortune, home or life forfeit. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| aa753c4 | shaggy coat, and its stance made | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| bc61640 | me doubt that my interest was shared. | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| a907252 | theories have a part to play so long as what they indicate agrees with what is seen | Armand Marie Leroi | ||
| f46fe52 | Edie enters the Factory in her otherworldly daze. She is at once natural and a creation of pure artifice. Everything about her - her tights, her long legs, her high heels, her preternaturally skinny body, her huge eyes - seems to drift upwards as if the cigarette she is smoking were made of helium. | David Dalton | ||
| 0438ad1 | In so far as prophecy has been already fulfilled, that fulfillment has been a literal one. Take the predictions regarding the Messiah. His being born of the house of David; of a virgin; at Bethlehem; being carried down to and brought out of Egypt; His healing diseases; His entering Jerusalem on an ass; His being betrayed by one of His disciples; His being left by all His familial friends; His being smitten, buffeted, spit upon; His side bei.. | Dalton Lifsey | ||
| 3f0cf6a | Very few experts actually measure their performance over time, and they tend to summarize their memories with anecdotes. They are right sometimes and wrong sometimes, but the anecdotes they remember tend to be more flattering to them. | Douglas W. Hubbard | ||
| 6e96536 | Segregation, separation, according to Jesus, is the basis of continuous violence. | Bayard Rustin | ||
| 7e95a6e | Why do we care about measurements at all? There are just three reasons. The first reason--and the focus of this book--is that we should care about a measurement because it informs key decisions. Second, a measurement might also be taken because it has its own market value (e.g., results of a consumer survey) and could be sold to other parties for a profit. Third, perhaps a measurement is simply meant to entertain or satisfy a curiosity (e.g.. | Douglas W. Hubbard | ||
| c1d25ae | Modeling the world mathematically is as uniquely a human trait as language or art, but you would rarely find anyone complaining of being "reduced to a poem" or "reduced to a painting." | Douglas W. Hubbard | ||
| e3f7520 | If it's really that important, it's something you can define. If it's something you think exists at all, it's something you've already observed somehow. * If it's something important and something uncertain, you have a cost of being wrong and a chance of being wrong. * You can quantify your current uncertainty with calibrated estimates. * You can compute the value of additional information by knowing the "threshold" of the measurement where.. | Douglas W. Hubbard | ||
| 7d4058d | Instead of being overwhelmed by the apparent uncertainty in such a problem, start to ask what things about it you do know. | Douglas W. Hubbard | ||
| 1dbb056 | If we incorrectly think that measurement means meeting some nearly unachievable standard of certainty, then few things will be measurable even in the physical sciences. | Douglas W. Hubbard | ||
| 55845ba | Measurement: A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations. | Douglas W. Hubbard | ||
| 8dfe55e | we know that decision makers will experience an increase in confidence in their decisions even when the analysis or information-gathering methods are found to be ineffectual. This is part of what Dawes called the "illusion of learning." | Douglas W. Hubbard | ||
| a606d35 | Anything currently estimated using expensive survey methods can be researched in different ways by any Internet-literate college student. | Douglas W. Hubbard |