“There are two very different types of minds. The tough-minded and the tender minded. Everybody wants truth, and everybody wants happiness. But the tough minded put truth first, and the tender-minded put happiness first." –William James
Tag: strength
The Great Race
No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, & the clean clothes are in the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing … Continue reading The Great Race
Our Will to Overcome
“God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.” -CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
Human Weaknesses
“What I think I ought to do, my lord, I do without bargaining. I am not sorry I threw you from your horse, and to say so would be to lie." "Of course everybody thinks himself in the right!" said his lordship with a small sneer. "It does not follow that no one is ever … Continue reading Human Weaknesses
Strength Inexhaustible
The man has begun to be strong who knows that, separated from life essential, he is weakness itself, that, one with his origin, he will be of strength inexhaustible. Donal was now descending the heights of youth to walk along the king's highroad of manhood: happy he who, as his sun is going down behind … Continue reading Strength Inexhaustible
The Man Has Begun to Be Strong
In every stream he came to he bathed his feet, and often on the way rested them, when otherwise able enough to go on. He had no certain goal, though he knew his direction, and was in no haste. He had confidence in God and in his own powers as the gift of God, and … Continue reading The Man Has Begun to Be Strong
Fall in, My Love
"No man can order his life, for it comes flowing over him from behind. But if it lay before us, and we could watch its current approaching from a long distance, what could we do with it before it had reached the now? In like wise a man thinks foolishly who imagines he could have … Continue reading Fall in, My Love
Forsaken, and Still Obeys
“Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.” CS Lewis, Screwtape Letters
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Thy Presence
“I AM a little weary of my life— Not thy life, blessed Father! Or the blood Too slowly laves the coral shores of thought, Or I am weary of weariness and strife. Open my soul-gates to thy living flood; I ask not larger heart-throbs, vigour-fraught, I pray thy presence, with strong patience rife.” ~George MacDonald
