Category Archives: Quick Thoughts

“Innocent Parties”

How often, in describing conflict (divorce or otherwise), do we expound (and perhaps expand) on the other person’s faults, and completely neglect our own? Continue reading

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Righteous Sinners

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. – Blaise Pascal If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; … Continue reading

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Wearing Out the Day

‘Taint worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. – Sarah Orne Jewett Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy … Continue reading

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A Key to Happiness

One of the keys to happiness is doing what you know you will wish you had done. – Unknown My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: – Solomon (Proverbs 1:8)

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Knowledge and Scorn

But we are all that way: when we know a thing we have only scorn for other people who don’t happen to know it. – Mark Twain (Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc) Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.  And … Continue reading

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Praying =/= Complaining

A quick thought (among some other good thoughts on prayer) from Sharlene: “…that was not praying; it was complaining. They are not the same thing.” Supplemental thought (which I’ve heard before but forgot where):  prayer request time is not gossip … Continue reading

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Seeking Power, Attributing Power

Muslims must believe that all power, success, and victory comes from God alone. – Abu Bakar Bashir, head of Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid Once I tried to use Him, Now He uses me; Once the pow’r I wanted, Now the Mighty … Continue reading

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