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“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
Posted in Daily Christianity, Quick Thoughts
Tagged Conflict, Divorce, self-justification
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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
Posted in Grace and Forgiveness, Quick Thoughts
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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
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)
Posted in A Proverb for Today, Quick Thoughts
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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
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
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
