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True knowledge results in profound humility, which fuels childlike wonder.
I’m not advocating an intellectual feeding frenzy. Afer all, we already suffer from information overload.
There is more information in one Sunday edition of the New York Times than the average person living in the Middle Ages would have consumed in an entire lifetime.
I’m not convinced we need to know more, as much as we need to do mo...
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For an organism to survive, the rate of learning must be equal to or greater than the rate of change happening around them.
I might argue that learning how to unlearn is actually primary, and learning how to learn is secondary. But one way or the other, it has to be both/and.
Half-minded is no better than halfhearted.
Be a man of your word, but more important, be a man of the Word.
Childlikeness = good. Childishness = bad.
How can I become more childlike? How can I become less childish?
“The chief proof of a man’s real greatness,” said Sherlock Holmes, “lies in the perception of his smallness.”42
The true measure of a man isn’t how much he knows; it’s how much he does with what he knows.
A gentleman and a scholar knows how much he doesn’t know. He cares less about being right than about being righteous. He loves asking questions more than giving answers.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
There is no situation under the sun in which your ability to respond can be taken away from you. You may not control your circumstances, but you control your reactions to them. And that is what sets the men apart from the boys!
If you want to be successful at anything, at everything—delay gratification.
It takes dunamis to bench press two hundred pounds. It takes exousia to stop at one Oreo.
No matter how mature you become spiritually, the undertow of temptation is trying to suck you under and drown you in lust or pride or guilt.
Overcoming temptation starts with recognizing your triggers. For most guys, we get into trouble when we’re tired, lonely, or bored.
It’s unwise to flirt with temptation. You shouldn’t even touch it with a ten-foot pole. Why? Because all the enemy needs is a foothold—one lie, one compromise, one click. And if you give him an inch, he’ll take a mile.
And when we get our fingerprints all over something, it usually means we have taken matters into our own hands instead of putting them into the hands of almighty God.
You aren’t defined by who you are when everyone is looking. You are defined by what no one sees, save the All-Seeing Eye. That’s who you really are.
We don’t fight fire with fire, and we don’t stop sinning by not sinning. We defeat this dragon with a God-given dream that is bigger than fear and better than sin.
One of this dragon’s most insidious lies is that God is holding out on you.
