Sir Walter Scott: There never did, and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent…
There never did, and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial.
In today’s wordsNothing lasting, noble, or excellent has ever existed in a character that didn't practice resolute self-denial, and nothing ever will.
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- Determinant disciplines are your PRACTICE in any area of your life, that will empower you to win in every area of your life.
- Be willing to do without so God can do within.
- Don't ever judge another's integrity. It will show a lack of your own.
- A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.
- Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.