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"So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
Psalm 90:12 (NKJV)"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day."
-- C.S. Lewis, *The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Vol. III*
"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
-- G.K. Chesterton, *Orthodoxy*
"For the Word is living and active, and by it the world was made. It was not enough for God to have made us by His wisdom and to have given us the gift of understanding; He also sent His own Son, who is the Word, that we might learn through Him and know the Father. For who among men could have known the counsel of God, or how the Maker of all things wished us to live? Only through the Word that was made flesh have we come to know these things."
-- Clement of Alexandria, *Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus)*
"We are not our own: let not our reason nor our will, therefore, sway our plans and deeds. We are not our own: let us therefore not set it as our goal to seek what is expedient for us according to the flesh. We are not our own: in so far as we can, let us therefore forget ourselves and all that is ours. Conversely, we are God's: let us therefore live for Him and die for Him. We are God's: let His wisdom and will therefore rule all our actions. We are God's: let all the parts of our life accordingly be directed toward Him as our only lawful goal."
-- John Calvin, *Institutes of the Christian Religion*, III.7.1
What would you hold more gently today if you truly believed this day was given, not earned?
"In the first place, do not allow yourself to be carried away by the intensity of your impression, but say, 'Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are, and what you represent. Let me test you.' After that, do not allow it to draw you on by picturing what will happen, for if you do, it will lead you wherever it pleases. Instead, set up another impression, a better one, and banish this one."
-- Epictetus, *Discourses*, II.18
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