Close Families

Close Families

Close families build history,

(The Christophers, Three Minutes A Day, Vol. 44, 22 October)

Dick Henthorn

4 July 2020

Growth

... growth is related directly to our success in looking at and releasing our history. Like barnacles on a ship's hull, our past wrongdoings can prevent us from sailing smoothly to a life fulfilled with peace.
(Twelve Steps For Christians, p. 129)
21 June 2014

The Alphabet

The invisible manifests itself in the visible. I think of the alphabet, of letters literally -- A, B, C, D, E, F, G, all twenty-six of them. I think of how poetry, history, the wisdom of the sages and the holiness of the saints, all of this invisible comes down to us dressed out in their visible, alphabetic garb. (Frederick Buechner, Listening To Your Life, p. 82) 8 April 2013

History Has Shown

World history has shown again and again that it is dangerous for a society to have individuals with too much power. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Sky's The Limit, p. 93)

People don't automatically buy into a good cause. ... People buy into the leaders first then the leader's vision. (John C. Maxwell, Leadership, 30 January)

To authoritarians, any attempt to change the country is an attempt to destroy it, and a citizen's duty is to obey the authority figures, without ever asking whether they are lying, stealing, trampling on people's rights or otherwise abusing their positions. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Sky's The Limit, p. 95)

... authoritarians have a very strong resistance to change, and are threatened by any disruption of things as they are accustomed to experiencing them. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Sky's The Limit, p. 67)

... authoritarians for all their pretensions to mastery, tend inwardly to be chronically depressed and unhappy people, suffering from an almost total lack of real human fulfillment, secretly aware that they are bumbling through life chasing some unknown inhuman thing, being tolerated but never really respected by others, and suffering from blind, inert acceptance of their fates. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Sky's The Limit, p. 102)

The signs of unholy relationships are quite clear; people become: defensive, fearful, hostile, standoffish, and don't wish to be in your company. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Power of Intention, p. 91)

Wars can be stopped only if people are ready to be persecuted for not participating in them. This is the only way. (Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar Of Wisdom, 29 December)

If my soldiers started thinking, not a single soldier would remain in my army. (Frederick II in A Calendar Of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy, 29 December)

The bigger the lie, the more eagerly do those who want the lie to be true corrupt their consciousness. ... there was the corrupted consciousness that kept America believing that we were winning the Vietnam War until 45,000 Americans were killed, 300,000 American men and women were wounded, over 150 billion dollars were spent, and a beautiful Asian country was left in smoking ruin. Barbara Tuckman writes in her book, "The March of Folly." "At no time were policy-makers unaware of the hazards, obstacles, and negative developments. American intelligence was adequate, informed observation flowed steadily from the field to the capital." We knew, but we choose not to know. (Lewis B. Smedes, A Pretty Good Person, p. 73)

• To put the world in order we must first put the nation in order.
• To put the nation in order we must first put the family in order.
• To put the family in order we must first cultivate our personal life.
• And to cultivate our personal life, we must set our hearts right.
• (Confucious, c.550-470 b.c., Chinese Philospher in Pocket Positives)

Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. (William Penn, in The  Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, p. 59)

10 March 2013

History

[Throughout history] Dishonorable, cowardly decisions invariably have led us to corruption and destruction.  Honorable, visionary decisions have led us to creation and advancement.  (Larsen and Hegarty, Believing In Myself, 21 November) 26 November 2011

Disturbances

Political and natural disturbances have always been a part of world history, so do not allow them to discourage you.  (Warren W. Wiersbe, Chapter-By-Chapter Bible Commentary, p. 650) 27 October 2011

Trouble

The real source of his trouble was himself.  (Selwyn Hughes, Every Day Light, Day 234)

When the course of world history depresses you, look at events from heaven's point of view.  (Warren W. Wiersbe, Chapter-By-Chapter Bible Commentary, p. 565)
27 September 2011

History

... we often get exasperated with people and things for being what they are. (Larsen and Hegarty, Believing In Myself, 2 August)

... the one thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history. (Warren W. Wiersbe, Chapter-By-Chapter Bible Commentary, p. 464)

• Fix things.
• Mend fences.
• Get things in order.
• Then you can move on.

(Steve Case, Everything Counts, 1 July)

16 August 2011