Biting
your lip, and trying to keep your temper is not the secret of living with
difficult people; that is never it. The secret is a thankful heart which
continually looks up to the Lord Jesus. It says, “Thank you, Lord, for the
quietness and the calmness, the purity and the love which is available to me
through you continually. Thank you.” A thankful heart and an obedient will that
seeks to please another for his own good is the secret of living with difficult
people. You try that and see if it doesn’t work. - Ray C. Stedman
It
would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of
sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For the giving of thanks belongs to
counter passion which is a necessary condition of justice...But justice is a
special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin...thanksgiving is a
special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore
ingratitude is a special sin. - Thomas Aquinas
In
ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give,
and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. It is very easy to
overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with that of
others. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It
must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in
public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day.
Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very
strange. It's a little like being married in general. - Cornelius Plantinga,
Jr.
Biting
your lip, and trying to keep your temper is not the secret of living with
difficult people; that is never it. The secret is a thankful heart which
continually looks up to the Lord Jesus. It says, “Thank you, Lord, for the
quietness and the calmness, the purity and the love which is available to me
through you continually. Thank you.” A thankful heart and an obedient will that
seeks to please another for his own good is the secret of living with difficult
people. You try that and see if it doesn’t work. - Ray C. Stedman
It
would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of
sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For the giving of thanks belongs to
counter passion which is a necessary condition of justice...But justice is a
special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin...thanksgiving is a
special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore
ingratitude is a special sin. - Thomas Aquinas
In
ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give,
and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. It is very easy to
overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with that of
others. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It
must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in
public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day.
Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very
strange. It's a little like being married in general. - Cornelius Plantinga,
Jr.