“You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret...
One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed.
In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.”
― A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness
One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed.
In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.”
― A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness
“Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior.”
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“anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.”
― The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
― The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
“What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?”
― A Tale of Three Kings
― A Tale of Three Kings
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
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