"Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make."

-- Sinclair B. Ferguson

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“When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.”
“I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillantâ€™s brilliant non-fiction about humankindâ€™s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguarâ€™s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.”
“Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.”
“I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.”
“Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.”
“[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.”
“The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.”
“Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.”

Source : John Kao (2009). “Jamming: Art and Discipline of Business Creativit”, p.22, Harper Collins

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