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The Failure of Immediate Victory
There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.
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The Cause of Disillusionment
Dr. Jerome Frank at Johns Hopkins talks about our "assumptive world." What he means is that all of us make assumptions about life about God, ...
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True Freedom Needs Limits
Most successful football players are free to perform at their best only when they know what the expectations are, where the limits stand. I see this as ...
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One Foot in the Air
Even in the best of health we should have death always before our eyes [so that] we will not expect to remain on this earth forever, but will have one ...
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Life Today Is Overrated
I think we have lost the old knowledge that happiness is overrated--that, in a way, life is overrated. We have lost somehow a sense of mystery--about ...
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Leaving Behind Your Child
One Sunday, our minister told the story of how Mary and Joseph left Jesus behind at the temple. My husband, Bob, wondered, "How could a parent forget ...
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Settling for Less
Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, told a story about a goose who was wounded and who landed in a barnyard with some chickens. He played with the chickens ...
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Prepare for the Unexpected
We all tend to prescribe the answers to our prayers. We think that God can come in only one way. But Scripture teaches us that God sometimes answers our ...
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Raised Expectations
Treat man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should ...
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