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A Society of Inadequacy
Deep down we have a sense of individual insecurity. Maxwell Maltz, who wrote Psycho-Cybernetics, estimates that 95 percent of people in our society have ...
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Forgetting the Point of It All
Max De Pree tells a wonderful story, and he swears that it's true, about those wonderful tomato growers in central California. More successful at ...
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Doing the Wrong Things
We try too hard to do the wrong things. No matter how much effort or ingenuity you put into the wrong mode, you still fail.
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"Success" Doesn't Count
A missionary wrote me: "Sometimes adversity tempts me to discouragement in the face of seeming failure. But I take courage and press on anew, as ...
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Choosing to Suffer
When local magistrates sentenced [John] Bunyan to imprisonment unless he promised them he would not preach, he refused, declaring that he would remain ...
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Real Success and Real Failure
Among the apostles, the one absolutely stunning success was Judas, and the one thoroughly groveling failure was Peter. Judas was a success in the ways ...
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Fear and Joy Go Together
If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.
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The Experienced Make Mistakes
The greatest errors in the spiritual life are not committed by the novices but by the adepts.
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When It Is Better to Fail
I would rather fail in a cause that someday will triumph than to win in a cause that I know someday will fail.
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She Lost Her Sheep
In our congregation's shepherding program, one family is designated the neighborhood "shepherd." This family invites ten other nearby church families ...
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