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The word philosophy combines two important Greek words: the first part of the word comes from the Greek phileō, which means “to love.” We are familiar with this word in the English language because we all know the meaning of the city of
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“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
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“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
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“Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, “Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.”
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“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!”
― The Journals of Jim Elliot
― The Journals of Jim Elliot
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