Outpost 17

PSALM 13-16 / ACTS 18

“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

― Terry Pratchett,

PSALM 10-12 / ACTS 17:16-34

"If trusting God and finding joy in your work means you go 0'fer with 3 strikeouts...then you needed to go 0'fer with 3 strikeouts."

PSALM 7-9 / ACTS 17:1-15

“What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration or grief or sadness or loneliness or guilt or regret or anger or fear or anxiety or anguish or despair. These are uncomfortable feelings, often very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical pain, sometimes equaling the very worst kind of physical pain. Indeed, it is because of the pain that events or conflicts engender in us all that we call them problems. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy."

― Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

PSALM 4-5 / ACTS 16:16-40

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

― Jalaluddin Rumi

PSALM 1-3 / ACTS 16:1-15

“Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

― Gregg Harris

JOB 29-30 / ACTS 12

“If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.”

― Timothy J. Keller

JOB 26-28 / ACTS 11

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.”

― Helen Keller

JOB 19-20 / ACTS 9:23-43

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

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JOB 16-18 / ACTS 9:1-22

“The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.

If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.”

― Roy T. Bennett

Job 13-15 / Acts 8:26-40

“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.”

― James Surowiecki