If you can’t control your peanut butter, how can you expect to control your own life? — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. –Dale Carnegie, American lecturer, author 1888-1955
Within me is a potent instinct for control. Control of [...]
Archive for the ‘Discipline’ Category
Active Surrender
Posted in A Spiritual Perspective, Attitude, Christian Living, Discipline, Godly Attitude on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I Hereby Resolve…
Posted in A Spiritual Perspective, Attitude, Christian Living, Discipline, History, tagged Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
Than it should be stifled by dryrot
I would rather be a superb meteor,
Every atom of me in magnificent glow,
Than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste [...]
Stoutness of Heart
Posted in A Spiritual Perspective, Christian Living, Discipline, Godly Attitude, History on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Affliction is the good man’s shining time.
–Abigail Adams, quoted in 1776 by David McCullough
The heart is a bloom. It shoots up through the stony ground.
–Bono, U2
I recall having a deep discussion with two of my children a few years ago about a concept we do not hear much of today– being “stout-hearted.” If you read [...]
When Shortcuts Are Costly
Posted in A Spiritual Perspective, Discipline, tagged American Culture, Starbucks Coffee on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Quick, show me the Mona Lisa! I’m double parked.”
–American in a hurry, Louvre Museum in Paris
All of us appreciate a good shortcut. Shortcuts can save us time, aggravation, and gas. I remember in graduate school a friend explaining a nifty word processing shortcut on the computer that has served me well every week of my [...]
