Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
Life Hacks
A friend of mine posted this up on Facebook and I definitely want to have it available later to look over again. Very cool and very handy ideas.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Quote, quotes, and more quotes
Often I find quotes that make me think and would like to come back to someday. Here are some quotes I have been thinking on recently:
"When you have a thing to do," he would say, "you will do it right in proportion to your love of right. Do the truth and you will love the truth. For by doing it you will see it as it is, and no one can see the truth as it is without loving it. The more you talk about what is right, or even talk about doing it, the more danger you are in of turning it into unpracticed theory. Talk without action saps the very will. Something you have to do is waiting undone all the time you are talking, and getting more and more undone. The only refuge is to do."
-Andrew (from The Landlady's Master by George MacDonald)
"Truth, of course, must be stranger than fiction, for we have made
fiction to suit ourselves." ~G. K. Chesterton
"It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't." ~G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." ~G. K. Chesterton
"Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God." ~Jim Elliot
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." ~C. S. Lewis
"In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others."
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ~Theodore Roosevelt
"I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." ~Theodore Roosevelt
"When you have a thing to do," he would say, "you will do it right in proportion to your love of right. Do the truth and you will love the truth. For by doing it you will see it as it is, and no one can see the truth as it is without loving it. The more you talk about what is right, or even talk about doing it, the more danger you are in of turning it into unpracticed theory. Talk without action saps the very will. Something you have to do is waiting undone all the time you are talking, and getting more and more undone. The only refuge is to do."
-Andrew (from The Landlady's Master by George MacDonald)
"Truth, of course, must be stranger than fiction, for we have made
fiction to suit ourselves." ~G. K. Chesterton
"It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't." ~G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." ~G. K. Chesterton
"Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God." ~Jim Elliot
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." ~C. S. Lewis
"In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others."
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ~Theodore Roosevelt
"I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." ~Theodore Roosevelt
What is my calling?
Back when I was in INSIGHT I heard a quote from Ralph Winter that changed my view of "calling". His idea is that we see needs around us all the time. Meanwhile we sit around asking God to help us understand our calling. Ralph Winter simply asks the question, "Isn't the need the call?"
At the time, I was also thinking about the idea of the Church as a Body. As I let Ralph Winter's question turn in my head, I began to think of friends I knew who saw completely different needs than I did. Some of them saw a need for people in poverty, others saw a need for a change in the way we treat our world, others saw a need for people to preach the gospel to the nations. As I thought about these things, I began to wonder, "What would it be like if we took the time that we spend thinking about calling and simply tried to help with the needs that we see, big and small, and then encouraged others as they did the same in different areas?"
My grandparents have always said, "You can't steer a boat that isn't moving." If we sit around waiting for a call, nothing is likely to happen. But, if we look for the needs around us and then act upon them, we might actually find "our calling."
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