— “If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.”- Hippocrates
Understanding Scripture
Don’t worry about what you do not understand of the Bible. Worry about what you do understand and do not live by. … Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), Clippings from My Notebook: writings of and sayings collected, Nashville: T. Nelson, 1982, p. 53
Evidence of Knowing God
Evidence of knowing God Those who know God have great energy for God. Those who know God have great thoughts of God. Those who know God show great boldness for God. Those who know God have great contentment in God. Excerpt and notes from Knowing God by J.I. Packer
J.I.Packer on Knowing God
Knowing God matters because if we do not know God, we cannot glorify him. And glorifying God is why there is something rather than nothing, and why we are all here.
God Alone is Sovereign
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, ‘That is mine!’. – Abraham Kuyper Exodus 19:5
FDR on Fear
“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” – FDR March 4, 1933
Elon Musk
Life is too short for long-term grudges. Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson. I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious. Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. The odds…
Ted Lasso
I like meeting people’s moms. It is like an instruction manual why they’re nuts. – S2S6, Ted Lasso
A Good Test of Ideology
A good test of every ideology is whether it exalts God and humbles man, or whether it exalts man and dethrones God. – John Stott
Humanism
Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.- Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), Pollution and the Death of Man [1970], reprint, Good News Publishers, 1992, p. 74
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