Posted on Sunday, 11th July 2010 by Bill Bean
Reading Wangerin’s As For Me And My House again. (You do read to improve your marriage, don’t you?) The book is overwhelmingly good. Highlighting the passages that stand-out will require more than one highlighter. Forgiveness is, according to Wangerin, the most practical tool for keeping a marriage working well. “There is no tool more practical [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 3rd July 2010 by Bill Bean
Emily will soon be leaving for a big, new adventure. I came across this quote and thought it appropriate for her. “You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 18th April 2010 by Bill Bean
“The way one speaks is a form of leadership that constantly affects the state of mind of all in earshot.” from Riding The Blue Train by Surinder Kumar and Bart Sayle Some good ideas and interesting stories but the book was not remarkable. However, this quote stuck out to me.
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Posted on Saturday, 12th December 2009 by Bill Bean
“Man is so avid for knowledge that everything he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology, his love becomes lechery, his wisdom becomes science. Pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.” Malcolm Muggeridge That quote came from an article by Ravi Zacharias. Read his post Hyperseeing and the Towers of Babel for the whole context. Just [...]
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Posted on Friday, 28th August 2009 by Bill Bean
“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” ~Aristotle
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