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“Every one of us are descended from the restless ones, the wayward ones who were not content to stay at home. Wouldn't it be unusual if we had not inherited this tendency?”
“…Roots were in ownership of land, in tangible and immovable possessions.
Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else”

BORINGGGGGG
Only kidding, documentation and legal implications was pretty common sense, finished A&P which brought back my Exercise Science days. Pharma/Shock/Airway next

Perfection is finally obtained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there's no longer anything to take away.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“Driving, I have written long, detailed letters never to be put to paper, much less sent.…
I have projected future scenes, just as complete and convincing—scenes that will never take place. I've written short stories in my mind, chuckling at my own humor, saddened or stimulated by structure or content.”

“It is easier to serve or work for God without a vision and without a call, because then you are not bothered by what He requires. Common sense, covered with a layer of Christian emotion, becomes your guide. You may be more prosperous and successful from the world's perspective, and will have more leisure time, if you never acknowledge the call of God.”

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality. If I love my Lord, I have no business being guided by natural emotions - We will not be delivered or released from His commission to us. Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by following your own natural human emotions, sympathies, or understandings. That will only serve to revile and abuse the true love of God

“If you are in love with someone, you don't sit and daydream about that person all the time-you go and do something for him. That is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Daydreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.”

“I think really he preferred slipping off quietly in the end,' said Gandalf.”

I don’t irish goodbye, I Hobbit goodbye

“Dejection stems from one of two sources-I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means "I must have it at once." Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer….
The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.”

10 pages in 3 hours im so good at this

You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents—burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose-the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God. When another crisis arises, you will realize that things cannot touch you as they used to do.

“It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a “doormat" under other people's feet…. Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude, because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.”

"HERE, I HAVE SEEN THINGS RARE AND PROFITABLE,
THINGS PLEASANT, DREADFUL, THINGS TO MAKE ME STABLE
IN WHAT I HAVE BEGUN TO TAKE IN HAND:
THEN LET ME THINK ON THEM, AND UNDERSTAND
FOR WHAT REASON THEY'VE SHOWN THESE THINGS TO ME.
FOR GOOD INTERPRETER, THANKFUL WILL I BE FOR ALL THEY HAVE SHOWN ME, AND SO AM I THANKFUL, INTERPRETER, TO HAVE STOPPED BY."

“Stubbornness and self-will will always stab Jesus Christ. It may hurt no one else, but it wounds His Spirit. Whenever we are obstinate and self-willed and set on our own ambitions, we are hurting Jesus. Every time we stand on our own rights and insist that this is what we intend to do, we are persecuting Him.”

“A warning which needs to be repeated is that
"the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us…"

“Jesus Christ knows our circumstances better than we do, and He says we must not think about these things to the point where they become the primary concern of our life.”

This jawn makes me sad 😔

Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don't take root anywhere. Jesus said if we would obey the life of God within us, He would look after all other things….
How much time have we wasted asking God senseless questions while we should be absolutely free to concentrate on our service to Him?

“Being made happy by someone else's best work, and then letting it inspire you to rise to the occasion, is not competi-tion. It's collaboration…. And we are all the beneficiaries of this upward spiral toward magnificence.
No system exists that can rank which work is most reflective of the maker. Great art is an invitation, calling to creators everywhere to strive for still higher and deeper levels.”

"As the King has said, 'But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Evangelist then applied these verses saying, "You are the man that is running into this
misery. You have begun to reject the counsel of the Most High and to draw back your foot from the way of peace, even almost to the point of risking your eternal condemnation."

Acts 26:16 is tremendously compelling: "to make you a minister and a witness…..
"There would be nothing there without a personal relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person, not to a cause. He was absolutely Jesus Christ's. He saw nothing else and he lived for nothing else. "For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2).