All too often,
when we battle for the right,
it turns out that both
the victor and the vanquished
have sustained defeat
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Today's Thought Gem—November
60 posts · 1 participants · started Nov 2, 2014, 12:20 PM
Too often we engage in a fight
merely to convince ourselves
that we are not afraid
On every mountaintop
of intellectual thought
are to be found
relaxation for the mind,
strength for the soul, and
communion for the spirit
The two major problems
of life are:
making a temporal living
and
the achievement of eternal survival
And
even the problem of making a living
requires religion for its ideal solution
Skill
is one of
the real sources
of the
satisfaction
of living
Be not deceived by
the tempting rewards of
dishonest achievement:
be willing to toil for the
later returns inherent in
honest endeavor
As a pleasure seeker
you should aim to be
a producer as well
as a consumer
Train your memory
to hold in sacred trust
the strength-giving and
worth-while episodes of life,
which you can recall at will
for your pleasure and edification
…the noblest of all memories
are the treasured recollections
of the great moments of a
superb friendship
There is an art in defeat
which noble souls always acquire;
you must know how to lose cheerfully;
you must be fearless of disappointment
Never hesitate to admit failure
Make no attempt to hide failure
under deceptive smiles
and beaming optimism
Success may generate courage
and promote confidence, but
wisdom comes only from the
experiences of adjustment to
the results of one’s failures
Men who prefer optimistic illusions
to reality can never become wise
Only those who face facts and
adjust them to ideals
can achieve wisdom
Failure is simply
an educational episode—
a cultural experiment in
the acquirement of wisdom…
The career of a God-seeking man
may prove to be a great success
in the light of eternity, even though
the whole temporal-life enterprise
may appear as an overwhelming failure,
provided each life failure yielded the
culture of wisdom and spirit achievement
Almost every human being has
some one thing which is held on to
as a pet evil, and which the entrance
into the kingdom of heaven requires
as a part of the price of admission
Riches have nothing
directly to do with
entrance into
the Kingdom of Heaven,
but the love
of wealth does
Wealth in itself, is not a curse,
but the love of riches many times
leads to such devotion to the things
of this world that the soul becomes blinded
to the beautiful attractions of the spiritual realities
of the kingdom of God on earth and to the
joys of eternal life in heaven
There is no sin
in having honest possessions
on earth
provided our treasure
is in heaven…
Seek the greater thing,
and the lesser will be found therein;
ask for the heavenly,
and the earthly shall be included
The shadow is certain to
follow the substance