Pursuing God's Calling

When the chance comes to leave everything else for what God calls you to do, do it. Do it without hesitation. You’ll sacrifice more than you imagined and question that decision a thousand times. But hang on with both hands to day that He called you.

It’s worth it. - Todd Wilson

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to find the idea for which I can live and die

What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain knowledge must precede every action. The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. ...

—Søren Kierkegaard,
Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund dated August 31, 1835,

The True Joy of Life

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

- George Bernard Shaw
Epistle Dedicatory to Arthur Bingham Walkley
“Man and Superman: a Comedy and a Philosophy”

You're a horse

“If one person tells you you're a horse , they are crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, There's conspiracy afoot. If ten people tell you you're a horse,it's time to buy a saddle”
― Jack Rosenblum

A great teacher

The measure of a great teacher isn't what he knows; it's what his students know. - John Maxwell

Beware of what is 'free'

There’s always free cheese in a mousetrap -- Old Proverb

How God speaks

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
[C.S.Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962), 93.]