Posts tagged "preaching to myself"

Saturday, May 17th, 2008 ↓

“You learn your limits. And then you learn your limits are almost entirely self-imposed. And then everything changes.”

—Building Mental Toughness: Simple, But Not Easy | Schaefer’s Blog
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Friday, May 9th, 2008 ↓

“In this vain and fallen world, a man who cannot laugh has no business undertaking to cure the world’s ills, because he is chief among them”

—For Kirk and Covenant, pp. 125-126, via http://www.dougwils.com/index.asp?Action=Anchor&CategoryID=1&BlogID=5428
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008 ↓

“The point is this: I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished. For I might seek to set the truth before the unconverted, I might seek to benefit believers, I might seek to relieve the distressed, I might in other ways seek to behave myself as it becomes a child of God in this world; and yet, not being happy in the Lord and not being nourished and strengthened in my inner man day by day, all this might not be attended to in a right spirit.”

—Mueller’s Prayers
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“But don’t bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocampus, they’re there to stay. Instead, the new habits we deliberately ingrain into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.”

—Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times
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