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There are those who scale the mountain of what-has-been-done-before, and add another stone to the peak. Then there are those who launch themselves from the summit.
Breeding a generation that believes anything worth communicating ought to be able to be said in five words or less. Unfortunately that leaves out almost everything.
Breeding a generation that cannot communicate in complete sentences, and sequential paragraphs.
It comes to this: If you can only communicate in sound-bytes you are no better off than a dog.
Fetch.
Lie down.
Roll over.
Play dead….
I saw a bumper sticker that said “Fish Tremble at the Sound of my Name.”
What if you had a bumper sticker that said, “Satan trembles at the sound of my name”? Would that be awesome if it was true?
But look at your life. How much of a difference are you making with your actions? Are you really interfering with Satan’s plans, or does what you’re doing affect him at all?
There are no benign tumors of the heart. They all spread their cancer into the visible world, where they destroy all that one is trying to build—relationships, reaching goals, happiness, and fulfillment. No matter what a person is trying to accomplish, if he is walking around with unresolved matters of the heart, his goals will be negatively affected.”
—Dr. Henry Cloud, Nine Things You Simply Must Do, pp. 34-35.
One of the worst things you can die with is potential. Die with failures before you die with potential.
—Op cit, p.41.
Have you ever noticed that whenever someone says, “Without any further ado…” they usually could have done without any prior ado?
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