Never Forget the Lesson

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

Not an Intricate Labyrinth

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

William Lyon Phelps

Grace Arrives

Grace arrives, unannounced, in lives that least expect or deserve it.

Andrew Sullivan

The Marriage Goal

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.

Robert C. Dodds

God's Comedy

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Garrison Keillor

God's Megaphone

God whispers to us in our pleasures. speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

CS Lewis

Requirements

God doesn’t require us to be a success – only faithful.

Suffering and Sonship

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Saint Augustine

If I had only…

If I had only…
forgotten future greatness
and looked at the green things and the buildings
and reached out to those around me
and smelled the air
and ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations
and heard the rain on the roof
and put my arms around my wife
… and it's not too late.

Hugh Prather
Notes To Myself

Turning Failure Into..

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

Who May Learn?

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

Distance from Anger

Don’t react when someone vents anger. Pretend you are watching from a distance.

Honest Signals

An MIT professor says he can read how much nervous energy you have by hooking you up to what he calls a “sociometer”. It’s a gadget that tracks nonverbal interactions. In one experiment, Sandy Pentland used it to predicte how well business plan pitches would be received just by looking at the tone of voice used to pitch the plan. Bottom line: It’s easy to mistake charisma for content. Pentland writes about the findings in his new book Honest Signals.

Let Today Be Today

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today!

The Source of Failure

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb