Contributed by Scott Jensen on Sep 11, 2008
Love is self-sacrifice for others. In the magazine The Christian Leader, Don Ratzlaff retells a story from Ernest Gordon’s Miracle on the River Kwai, a story based on World War II events. The Scottish soldiers, forced by their Japanese captors to labor on a jungle railroad, had degenerated to
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FOUR BATTLES WITH SELF CONTROL IN PROVERBS:
Uncontrolled lust. (Proverbs 6:26: “For the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life”).
Uncontrolled spending (Proverbs 21:20: “In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man
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"The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is, of all
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The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than
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"It is not only the most difficult thing, to know oneself, but the
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"It is always easier to confess the sins of others than to acknowledge our own faults, and to point out the delinquencies of others than to mend our own nets. Men, like water,
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A person all wrapped up in himself generally makes a
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking ones work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The
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"When we make ourselves more than nothing, we make God
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"You have an ego a consciousness of being an individual. But that doesn't mean that you are to worship yourself, to think
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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other
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