More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Why, for example, have you had an inferiority complex all your life long, or why have you been haunted by fear, or, again, why do you nurse resentment? Why have you always been shy and reticent, or why do you do stupid things or make inept statements? These phenomena of your human nature do not just happen.
Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.
“I find that when I sit in the sun and let the sun work on me it puts some rays into me that give me energy; that is, when I take time to sit in the sun.
First, collapse physically.
The second element in the formula is to ‘drain the mind’.
Third, think spiritually.
“I have learned one important fact,” the Congressman continued, “and that is in any situation be relaxed, keep calm, take a friendly attitude, have faith, do your best. Do this, and usually you can make things come out all right.”
Here are ten rules for taking the hard way out of your job.
The Bible is a very realistic book and it knows people, their infinite possibilities as well as their imperfections.
However, there are certain formulas and procedures which, if followed faithfully, can make you a person whom other people like.
The feeling of not being wanted or needed is one of the most devastating of all human reactions.
Everywhere today we see people putting on an act because of their inordinate desire for popularity in the superficial sense in which the word is often used in modern society.
First, become a comfortable person, that is, one with whom people can associate without a sense of strain.
One hundred traits were scientifically analysed and it was reported that one must have forty-six favourable traits in order to be liked.
Christianity, however, teaches that one basic trait will go far toward getting people to like you. That trait is a sincere and forthright interest in and love for people.
May I remind you as I remind myself that one of the greatest tragedies of the average person is the tendency to spend our whole lives perfecting our faults?
However, I list ten practical rules for getting the esteem of others.
His trouble lay in an inability to rise above sorrow.
One element in the prescription is physical activity.
A sensible programme which substitutes physical activity for such fruitless brooding reduces the strain on the area of the mind where we reflect, philosophise, and suffer mental pain.
Whatever the character of your heartache, one of the first steps is to resolve to escape from any defeatist situation which may have been created around yourself, even though it is difficult to do so, and return once again to the normal course of your life.
Lose yourself in some worth-while project.
Superficial escapism through feverish activity merely deadens pain temporarily and does not heal, as, for example, parties and drinking.
It is natural to cry when pain or sorrow comes. It is a relief mechanism provided in the body by Almighty God and should be used.
secret of curing heartache is to be as normal and natural as possible.
Inevitably the basic prescription for heartache is to turn to God in an attitude of faith and empty the mind and heart to Him.
The simplest and most effective of all prescriptions for heartache then is to practise the presence of God.
This means that you have never seen, no matter what you have seen, however wonderful it is, you have never seen anything to compare with the marvellous things that God has prepared for those who love Him and who put their trust in Him.
Not only have you never seen nor ever heard, but you have never even dimly imagined what He is going to do for you.
He is trying to tell us that when we do not see Him, it does not mean He is not there.
Read and believe the Bible as it tells about the goodness of God and the immortality of the soul.
I cite these experiences to show conclusively that if there is a Power able to deliver a person from alcoholism, this same Power can help any other person to overcome any other form of defeat he may face.
I pray for you. God will help you—so believe and live successfully.
