“If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day—go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month—get married.
If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime—help others.”
Chinese Proverb (quoted by Todd Harris in the shadow of Mt. Everest)
Friday, October 22, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Ravi on the cross.
"Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer."
Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Learning Humility
Question: How can I learn to be humble?
Answer: Get humiliated!
Question: And if that doesn't work?
Answer: Get humiliated again.
Answer: Get humiliated!
Question: And if that doesn't work?
Answer: Get humiliated again.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
"Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents" (in American politics)
From William Burke's speech given in Parliament on April 23,1770.
"Whilst men are linked together, they easily and speedily communicate the alarm of any evil design. They are enabled to fathom it with common counsel, and to oppose it with united strength. Whereas, when they lie dispersed, without concert, order, or discipline, communication is uncertain, counsel difficult, and resistance impracticable. Where men are not acquainted with each other’s principles, nor experienced in each other’s talents, nor at all practised in their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint efforts in business; no personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them; it is evidently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity, perseverance, or efficacy. In a connection, the most inconsiderable man, by adding to the weight of the whole, has his value, and his use; out of it, the greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public. No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours, are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
One hundred years later the last sentence had been altered to become the oft quoted "misquote": The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
It is time (in America) for good men to "man up", stand up and speak up!
"Whilst men are linked together, they easily and speedily communicate the alarm of any evil design. They are enabled to fathom it with common counsel, and to oppose it with united strength. Whereas, when they lie dispersed, without concert, order, or discipline, communication is uncertain, counsel difficult, and resistance impracticable. Where men are not acquainted with each other’s principles, nor experienced in each other’s talents, nor at all practised in their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint efforts in business; no personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them; it is evidently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity, perseverance, or efficacy. In a connection, the most inconsiderable man, by adding to the weight of the whole, has his value, and his use; out of it, the greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public. No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours, are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
One hundred years later the last sentence had been altered to become the oft quoted "misquote": The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
It is time (in America) for good men to "man up", stand up and speak up!
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Six Honest Serving Men
I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
Let them serve you and they'll help you get to the bottom of almost anything.
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
Let them serve you and they'll help you get to the bottom of almost anything.
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