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Seven False Hopes of Software Management: There is a productivity trick you’ve missed. – Response: You are not dumb enough to miss something so fundamental.
In this chapter, the author introduces the metaphor of the invisible glass barrier to uncover why many Christians observe the joy and blessings available through the Holy Spirit, yet struggle to fully claim them in their lives. This barrier represents the 'self-life' that persists in holding believers back from complete surrender to God. Despite knowing the potential of a life filled with righteousness, peace, and joy, the self-life creates a divide that believers often find themselves unable to cross over. The author challenges conventional thinking by suggesting that the failure to embrace the Holy Spirit's joy is not due to a lack of knowledge or effort but an inner barrier that must be overcome through total self-abandonment and trust in God. This concept urges a reevaluation of how believers perceive obstacles to spiritual fulfillment and encourages a decisive break from the self-reliance that often hinders spiritual progress.
In conditional, ego-centered love, we show love only to someone who meets our specific specifications. In unconditional love, we create loveability by freely giving the five A's. In this generous form of human grace-giving, there is no set of criteria to be met by the love object. In other words, love's range is infinite and anyone can be loved.
We need only to hit the New York Times of our scene.
Our minds are filled more with reasons of why we can’t than thoughts of what we want to create.
Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
Clear illustrates how our surroundings significantly influence our behaviors. For instance, museum curators can discern the authenticity of artifacts at a glance, and experienced radiologists can identify anomalies in brain scans quickly. These examples underscore the brain's ability to make rapid, accurate predictions based on environmental cues. 'The human brain is a prediction machine,' highlighting the importance of aligning our environment with our desired habits. Anne Thorndike's study on improving healthy food choices by changing the environment in a hospital cafeteria demonstrates how small changes in our surroundings can lead to better habits.
The truth is our goal and questions are our tools. But we must learn to wield them. It’s delicate work. And well worth learning. There’s treasure below.
Man is a thinking reed but his great works are done when he is not calculating and thinking. “Childlikeness” has to be restored.
Simplicity scales; complexity fails.
She sighs, and puts him gently in his crib... She has declared war upon him. Her will must prevail over his.
The sign of progress isn’t the ability never to get hurt or offended… The sign of progress is to let the pain work for you instead of against you.
A deep life is a good life, any way you look at it.
The more horrible her present life became... the less able she was to give up hoping that her love would change this man or that the next one would be her longed-for rescuer.
The Bible is not a book of abstract theology; it is a book of life and vitality, and it has the power to change lives.
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
Baptism means burial: 'We were buried therefore with him through baptism.
The good-to-great leaders never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons.
When we put pressure on other people in order to get what we want, they automatically resist.
Christ saves to the uttermost by persistently interceding for burdened sinners, meeting every fresh failure with active, compassionate advocacy.
