Brendan Morgan
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Brendan Morgan
My entire life changed when I realized one truth:
You have to sacrifice short-term freedom in order to earn long-term freedom.
The things that make you feel happy in the present are often at odds with the things that make you feel happy in the future.
Acting on short-term freedom—choosing to do the things that create instant happiness—may actually har... See more
You have to sacrifice short-term freedom in order to earn long-term freedom.
The things that make you feel happy in the present are often at odds with the things that make you feel happy in the future.
Acting on short-term freedom—choosing to do the things that create instant happiness—may actually har... See more
{Psalm 30}
When God’s children prosper one way, they are generally tried another, for few of us can bear unmingled prosperity. Even the joys of hope need to be mixed with the pains of experience, and the more surely so when comfort breeds carnal security and self-confidence.
- Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Volume One (Part Two), pg 43
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When God seems silent and our prayers go unanswered, the overwhelming temptation is to leave the story—to walk out of the desert and attempt to create a normal life. But when we persist in a spiritual vacuum, when we hang in there during ambiguity, we get to know God. In fact, that is how intimacy grows in all close relationships.
David Powlison • A Praying Life
Remain playful as your responsibilities increase. It's easy to become serious when people and results depend on you, but nearly everyone's performance improves when they proceed lightly through the world.
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
Confidence isn't a quality we are born with or something that magically happens; it's built through action.
-Anne Laure le cunff
{Psalm 28}
“It is said,” said Rutherford, speaking of the Saviour’s delay in responding to the request of the Syrophenician woman, “ ‘he answered not a word,’ but it is not said, he heard not a word. These two differ much. Christ often heareth when he doth not answer—his not answering is an answer, and speaks thus—‘pray on, go on and cry, for t