Dr. Steve Stephens - How to Build a Great Life

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Lists to Live By: The First Collection: For Everything that Really Matters

WHAT IS SUCCESS?

To laugh often and love much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the approval of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;

To give of one's self;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...

This it to have succeeded.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

POET, ESSAVIST, AND PHILOSOPHER

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Added: March 20, 2008

Day 3

When I truly consider and contemplate the creator of eternity and infinity, I’m shaken to my very core. If he is comprehensible, I need not change; but if he is incomprehensible, I would be foolish not to change. In the end C. S. Lewis was right: “The best is perhaps what we understand least.” And what I understand least is frequently what moves me most.

Dr. Steve

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Posted: 04/24/2008

I love that comment. One of the problems in human nature is our inability to grasp the immensity of our God. Honestly I don't think I can either. I know He is not as small as me. Even when he was in flesh He was way more. Really, it comforts me to think He is bigger than I can grasp because then I know He's not too busy for me.

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