Look at this! Posting 2 days in a row. I'm excited and surprised actually. One thing people might know about me if they know anything at all is that I'm a procrastinator and am often lazy. But for some reason I enjoy doing this and I hope to continue and I hope that maybe my blog will help someone somewhere today or in the future. One thing I will look to do is build obedience as I write these posts and try to do 1 a day. I apologize if for some reason I don't post on a certain day, but I'm not sure if that would even be missed by anyone haha. Speaking of obedience, that brings me to the quote for the day:
"You can't see through to the future. Looking forward is often cloudy. Muddled. You fly blind. Except for one thing: obedience. It's like sonar. Obedience will not remove obstacles. It will only help you navigate through them. But it does have its requirements: Obedience compels us to live by trust and obedience, not by results and rewards. No preset guarantees. Only promises" ~ Wayne Cordeiro
I remember when you used to write blogs or whatever they were called on myspace you could attach a mood and a song that you were perhaps listening to while you wrote your blog. I thought it'd be fun if I at least incorporated the song I was listening to while writing this. Well, the song at which was playing when I ended it. I usually get through 2 or 3 songs while doing these. That's something that could be cool to people, perhaps you would have never heard of the band or song and look it up and like it. Who knows. Now I will be upfront, if this continues you might see a trend in my music that there is no trend. I do listen to mostly everything and I just let my itunes play on shuffle to see what it picks.
Anywho right now "Wordsworth's ridge" by Sufjan Stevens is playing. I think he has a quite soothing voice accompanied often by soothing string instruments.
-J
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
I'll take wisdom any day.
I really like this quote. I'll let it do the rest of the speaking for itself. Perhaps in future posts I will include more of why I like them or not, perhaps not. I'll have to figure that out when it comes.
A Choice of Instructors
"Life has given us two very effective teachers. Both are top-flight instructors, but neither comes cheap. While both are effective, both require something of us. We have to choose one or the other, and if we choose neither, the second will be chosen for us.
The teachers are Wisdom and Consequences.
We can learn a great deal from either teacher. I should warn you, however, of the huge difference in their instructional styles. While Wisdom will amaze and delight us with her lessons, Consequences will leave us breathless---and not in a good way. The truth is, Consequences is by far the tougher teacher of the two. For one thing, Consequences' enrollment cost and ongoing tuition are sky-high. Oh, she'll teach us well, all right---but by the time we learn her lessons, her instruction may have cost us years. It may have cost us our marriage, our family, our job, our ministry, perhaps even our life. Consequences has a huge back-end cost.
In your younger years, did you ever think you were Superman or Wonder Woman . . . and then jump off a fence or a doghouse to prove it? Not long ago a friend of mine, reflecting on his childhood, told me how his big brother convinced him he was Superboy. Nothing could hurt him! In fact, to prove it, his older brother challenged him to walk over to a patch of white clover and step barefoot on one of the busy honeybees attending the blossoms.
His brother was very convincing. My friend took his little bare feet over to the clover and trod on a bee. He said he didn't know which hurt the most, the stinger in his foot or the realization that he'd been deceived.
He was vulnerable after all.
Every one of us has learned something from personal experience that has made us a little wiser. But such lessons, lessons learned from Consequences, inflict real suffering and acute pain---and sometimes they're much, much more injurious than a bee sting." ~ Wayne Cordeiro
I'm going to stop it there. It goes on a bit more and if interested for more feel free to ask. Thanks for reading.
-J
A Choice of Instructors
"Life has given us two very effective teachers. Both are top-flight instructors, but neither comes cheap. While both are effective, both require something of us. We have to choose one or the other, and if we choose neither, the second will be chosen for us.
The teachers are Wisdom and Consequences.
We can learn a great deal from either teacher. I should warn you, however, of the huge difference in their instructional styles. While Wisdom will amaze and delight us with her lessons, Consequences will leave us breathless---and not in a good way. The truth is, Consequences is by far the tougher teacher of the two. For one thing, Consequences' enrollment cost and ongoing tuition are sky-high. Oh, she'll teach us well, all right---but by the time we learn her lessons, her instruction may have cost us years. It may have cost us our marriage, our family, our job, our ministry, perhaps even our life. Consequences has a huge back-end cost.
In your younger years, did you ever think you were Superman or Wonder Woman . . . and then jump off a fence or a doghouse to prove it? Not long ago a friend of mine, reflecting on his childhood, told me how his big brother convinced him he was Superboy. Nothing could hurt him! In fact, to prove it, his older brother challenged him to walk over to a patch of white clover and step barefoot on one of the busy honeybees attending the blossoms.
His brother was very convincing. My friend took his little bare feet over to the clover and trod on a bee. He said he didn't know which hurt the most, the stinger in his foot or the realization that he'd been deceived.
He was vulnerable after all.
Every one of us has learned something from personal experience that has made us a little wiser. But such lessons, lessons learned from Consequences, inflict real suffering and acute pain---and sometimes they're much, much more injurious than a bee sting." ~ Wayne Cordeiro
I'm going to stop it there. It goes on a bit more and if interested for more feel free to ask. Thanks for reading.
-J
The Very First Post! TVFP
After opening my blogspot account like 2 weeks ago I've been thinking about what I would actually put on here. I couldn't figure it out for the life of me. Then as I began to read more books I kept coming across quotes I really enjoyed, and instead of flooding facebook with them or just forgetting about them as I put the book back onto the shelf. I decided to put them on here, so I would have a collection of them but could also share them with friends and strangers.
As I continue to post quote I'd really love input from my readers. Such as: Your quotes are too short, or perhaps too long, your quotes don't seem to be funny enough, or they are not inspirational enough. I will of course take all of these comments into consideration when making future posts. Also feel free to discuss the quote among yourselves in the comments. I'd prefer no arguing, but of course I probably can't stop that. Hopefully it doesn't happen though.
I will warn everyone reading this that I've been mostly reading Christian books lately, and not novels. More or less Christian literature to help grow in the faith and to help teach me and others how Christians are supposed to act. I will however steer clear as much as I can from just posting religious quotes. I am going to only take points from these books that can be looked at and viewed by believers as well as non-believers and the same outcome reached. Well, as same an outcome is possible.
If anybody has any questions about the quote like where it came from or why I picked it or why I liked it or anything for that matter I don't mind being contacted and I will gladly get back to you as soon as I can. I'm sure for a long long time, if not forever my blog will not be immensely popular so the response time really shouldn't be that long.
I will be relying on you my fans (of which I have none at the point of writing this) to get the word out on this blog. I'm merely doing this to share knowledge, and in my next post (which will be my first quote) we will learn how wisdom is very important in life. My goal with this is to provide information that should help everyone in their day-to-day life. Whether it helps them individually or maybe it would spark them to be more charitable, or nicer to a fellow person. In which case improving the overall happiness in the world.
Anyway, I'm done talking for now, I hope you all enjoy and remember (this will actually be my first quote) a bit of history on this quote before I actually write it. Someone who was struggling in life and their career had read a book from the past that greatly helped them out of their slump and this is him talking about the situation. "What if my trip to The Archives yielded not just one but dozens of such books, each offering insightful lessons from the past that could save me years of hurtful consequences? What would that be worth? If I could get other great men and women of history to write down for me their mistakes and successes, I'd pay thirty thousand for it, easily. It would be a bargain. A steal!"
And there we have it. From others previously studied knowledge, mistakes and successes we can learn greatly. And that is why I'm starting this list of quotes. Please enjoy responsibly.
-J
As I continue to post quote I'd really love input from my readers. Such as: Your quotes are too short, or perhaps too long, your quotes don't seem to be funny enough, or they are not inspirational enough. I will of course take all of these comments into consideration when making future posts. Also feel free to discuss the quote among yourselves in the comments. I'd prefer no arguing, but of course I probably can't stop that. Hopefully it doesn't happen though.
I will warn everyone reading this that I've been mostly reading Christian books lately, and not novels. More or less Christian literature to help grow in the faith and to help teach me and others how Christians are supposed to act. I will however steer clear as much as I can from just posting religious quotes. I am going to only take points from these books that can be looked at and viewed by believers as well as non-believers and the same outcome reached. Well, as same an outcome is possible.
If anybody has any questions about the quote like where it came from or why I picked it or why I liked it or anything for that matter I don't mind being contacted and I will gladly get back to you as soon as I can. I'm sure for a long long time, if not forever my blog will not be immensely popular so the response time really shouldn't be that long.
I will be relying on you my fans (of which I have none at the point of writing this) to get the word out on this blog. I'm merely doing this to share knowledge, and in my next post (which will be my first quote) we will learn how wisdom is very important in life. My goal with this is to provide information that should help everyone in their day-to-day life. Whether it helps them individually or maybe it would spark them to be more charitable, or nicer to a fellow person. In which case improving the overall happiness in the world.
Anyway, I'm done talking for now, I hope you all enjoy and remember (this will actually be my first quote) a bit of history on this quote before I actually write it. Someone who was struggling in life and their career had read a book from the past that greatly helped them out of their slump and this is him talking about the situation. "What if my trip to The Archives yielded not just one but dozens of such books, each offering insightful lessons from the past that could save me years of hurtful consequences? What would that be worth? If I could get other great men and women of history to write down for me their mistakes and successes, I'd pay thirty thousand for it, easily. It would be a bargain. A steal!"
And there we have it. From others previously studied knowledge, mistakes and successes we can learn greatly. And that is why I'm starting this list of quotes. Please enjoy responsibly.
-J
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