In a famous Hasidic story, a rabbi asks his disciple: “Do you love me?”
To which the disciple replies: “Of course I love you!”
The rabbi continues. “Do you know what causes me pain?” he asks.
“Rabbi, how can I know what causes you pain?”
To which the rabbi responds: “If you do not know what causes me pain, how can you say that you love me?”
(from Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin)
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~ B.F. Skinner
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
~ Vernon Law [baseball player] in Sports Legends on Success
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
~ Robert Maynard Hutchins
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
~ St. Augustine
(from Rev. Dr. Kang Na, Westminster College)
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
~ G.K. Chesterton
"I got 99 problems, but Romans 8:1"
~ Josh Howerton, Lakepointe Church member, Rockwall, Texas
@howertonjosh
May 16, 2021
quoted in May 20, 2021 Church Humor Newsletter <newsletter@e.christianitytoday.com>
(Romans 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,)
"The inside joke about freedom—one that early settlers understood perfectly well and that this man would have found out soon enough—is that you’re always trading obedience to one thing for obedience to another."
The Reality Behind the Dream of Total Freedom
A walking trip with friends reveals the deeply American appeal of independence—and the truth about how much we need one another.
By Sebastian Junger
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-reality-behind-the-dream-of-total-freedom-11620919592
May 13, 2021 11:26 am ET
—This essay is adapted from Mr. Junger’s new book, “Freedom,” which will be published May 18 by Simon & Schuster.
"Talent is universal, but opportunity is not."
~ Nicholas Kristof,
New York Times, Sunday, May 9, 2021
"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always."
~ Robin Williams
from Leslie Robison's coaching and consulting blog:
Eight options to say no, with a bit of advice
https://www.masteryconsulting.net/post/yes-because-i-can-t-say-no
Here are eight options to say no, with a bit of advice: only the first four work to your advantage. Notice none of them offer a reason for declining. It’s your choice to explain your decision or not.
1. No.
2. No, thanks.
3. Thank you for asking, but I can’t.
4. Maybe next time.
5. Absolutely not!
6. I would never do that!
7. Are you out of your mind?
8. Not a snowballs’ chance in hell.
Use them carefully, simply, and intentionally and protect your time, money, and peace of mind confidently.
On second thought, I already had plans for that time and money. Ask me another time. And thanks for asking.
Leslie Robison, Coaching and Consulting
Isaiah 25:6–9 NRSV
6 On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines,
of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.
7 And he will destroy on this mountain
the shroud that is cast over all peoples,
the sheet that is spread over all nations;
8 he will swallow up death forever.
Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces,
and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
9 It will be said on that day,
Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who stood for Christ and against not just Hitler but also the Christendom of his day, penned this benediction from prison: “May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.”
Diane Langberg, PhD
@DianeLangberg, https://twitter.com/DianeLangberg, Apr 11, 2021
"Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear."
~ Mark Twain
"Some luck lies not in getting what you want but getting what you have, which — once you take a good look — you may realize is what you would’ve wanted if you had only known. I’m not sure that sentence is grammatically correct but it’s true."
~ Garrison Keillor
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire."
~ Gustav Mahler
Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer and conductor, 1860-1911
"Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough."
~ Vincent van Gogh, Dutch post-impressionist painter
“Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man’s only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.“
— Auguste Comte
Title Page A General View of Positivism (1848, 1856)
Source: https://quotepark.com/authors/auguste-comte/
(note: Warren Buffet quoted Comte in in a 1985 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter regarding Berkshire’s failing textile businesses: “I ignored Comte’s advice – ‘the intellect should be the servant of the heart, but not its slave’ – and believed what I preferred to believe.”)
“Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.”
— Auguste Comte
https://www.azquotes.com/author/3165-Auguste_Comte
“But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.”
— Auguste Comte
https://www.azquotes.com/author/3165-Auguste_Comte
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt, philanthropist and First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office
