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“Rescue is made possible by someone creating the need to be rescued. And while we are privileged to be involved in the occasional rescue, it seems that we’re far more involved in creating the need for it.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Rescue Consequences Discernment Save Salvage

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“It may not be the problem that's the problem. Rather, the problem might be the tool that I'm using to try and solve the problem.”

Wisdom Choices Solutions Tools Problems Difficulties Strategies Solving

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“Somehow I said “yes” to whatever put me here and “no” to whatever did not. And if I don’t like where I’m at, maybe I should start trading out one answer for the other.”

Wisdom Choices Responsibility Decisions Accountability No Thoughtfulness Yes

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“Wisdom’ and ‘greed’ sit at opposite ends of the continuum. And interestingly enough, they share the same place on the same continuum as ‘life’ and ‘death.’ And the person who is daring enough to be honest with themselves knows exactly which end they share.”

Life Wisdom Death Choices Opposites Greed Extremes Consequences Repercussions

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“If I look way back to the beginning of ‘whatever this is’ that I’m stuck in the middle of, I suddenly realize that ‘whatever this is’ got started by ‘whatever it is’ that I was doing. And I can be utterly confident in the fact that ‘whatever it is’ that I was doing, it wasn’t thinking.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Realization Thoughtful Consequences Prudent Repercussions Discerning Fool Foolish

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“As the old saying goes, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” The problem is that too often we assume that we’ve got the right cat, and then we assume that the only solution is to skin it. And once everything mercifully comes to a close, assuming that we’ve made a terrible mess of things is the only assumption that’s not an assumption.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Fool Solutions Cat Foolish Problems Discernment Assumptions

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“The emptiness in our lives is due to the ‘absence of all the right things,’ and the ‘presence of all the wrong things.’ And if there’s some sort of silver-lining to be found in feeling empty, it’s that we’ve been successful at doing both of the above.”

Wisdom Choices Empty Decisions Emptiness Wrong Things Life Choices Right Things

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“If I have to create space for something to enter my life by asking God to leave my life, maybe what I’ve actually done is taken leave of my senses.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Salvation Foolish Priorities Godly Godless

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“If the seat of our pants are worn thin, it’s probably because we’ve been flying by the seat of them far too long.”

Wisdom Choices Pants Impulsive Discreet Seat Seat Of Our Pants

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“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out of. The greatness of God is that He has a shovel long enough for every hole ever dug.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Existence Jesus Christ Holes Decisions Discernment Shovels

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“God in His omnipotence says, ‘Here it is.’ And we in our ignorance say, ‘No it’s not!’ And in the end there it was, and where it is we are not.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Ignorance Foolish Abandonment Omnipotence

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“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got our fingers wrapped around so many other things that are not important.”

Important God Wisdom Choices Wise Foolish Priorities Consequences Unimportant Finger

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“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got all of our fingers wrapped around a bunch of other things that are not important.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Stupid Importance Fingers Foolish Priorities Consequences Assessment

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“Without God, my internal compass is something more akin to a windmill in a hurricane.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Prayer Guidance Discernment Direction Hurricane

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“What I see behind me is what I’m going to create in front of me. Therefore, I might want to take a long hard look out of the rearview mirror before I drop it into ‘drive’.”

Life Wisdom Past Choices Future Responsible Thoughtful Consequences Repercussions

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“Why am I always lost in the woods,” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down for a moment and be honest with myself, I’ll rather reluctantly admit that I drew the map.”

God Wisdom Choices Jesus Lost Christianity Ignorance Responsible Stupidity Accountability

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“It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.”

“I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.”

Wisdom Pain Choices Wise Evidence Painful Confusion Decisions Choice Discernment Decide Discerning Choosing Correct Confuse Discern Incorrect

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“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Ignorance Destruction Ignorant Insane Conclusion Insanity Destroying Irrational End Destroy Illogical Choosing Short Sighted Chose Conclude Preposterous

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“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.”

“Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.”

“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?”

Wisdom Choices Easy Moral Wise Failure Fool Easier Foolish Decisions Acknowledge Choice Ethical Right Fail Decide Choosing Correct Failed Chose Admit Deciding

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“Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.”

“God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.”

Life God Wisdom Christian Choices Christianity Wise Stupid Ignorance Fool Defeat Stupidity Decisions Decline Lives Ignore Foolhardy Invitation Invite

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“More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I’m in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.”

Problem Wisdom Choices Situation Stupid Stupidity Holes Familiar Choice Repetition Familiarity Sabotage Self Sabotage Hole Dig Pit Dug

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“My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.”

Wisdom Choices Results Consequence Accepted Choice Rejected Consequences Invitations Discernment Result Outcome Choosing Natural Consequences Invite Fallout

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“At one time or another someone said to us, ‘What were you thinking?’ And often it’s not that we weren’t thinking. Rather, it was that we were thinking that thinking would get in the way of what we wanted, so we were thinking that it would be better not to think. And I think that all of that is thinking.”

Reason Wisdom Justification Think Discernment Rationalization Contemplate

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“Mankind is averse to true wisdom because it will demand of us what we prefer not to give. Therefore we craft something that will give us everything that we want, and this we call wisdom.”

Wisdom Mankind Fool Greed Selfish Foolish Self Centered Foolhardy

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“Apparently the driver had driven through three barriers before they ended up at the bottom of the ravine. And when asked how they had missed the “Bridge Out” signs, the driver replied, “I was too busy driving the car to read the signs.” And as I think about our culture, I often wonder how many ravines are we going to have to end up in before we begin reading the signs?”

Wisdom Wise Priorities Decisions Signs Preoccupied Ravine

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“Why do we tend to dread tomorrow? Because we weren’t all that wise in living out the ‘today’ that put that ‘tomorrow’ out into tomorrow.”

Wisdom Today Tomorrow Foolish Decisions Outcomes Consequences Repercussions Thoughtless Throughtful

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“Remember, the other half of starting a fire is putting it out.”

Wisdom Politics Leadership Fire Wise Decisions Thoughtful Foolishness Consequences

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“To think that a single step is random, and to take a thousand such steps each day is to insure that we will end up in the very places that we spent our lives avoiding.”

Life Wisdom Steps Journey Decisions Discernment Random

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“The only fool that we can control is the one that we hope to never become.”

Wisdom Hope Wise Fool Personal Development Foolish Decisions Control

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“Decisions suggest thought, which is something that I am far too frequently in short supply of.”

Thinking Wisdom Thought Decisions Discernment Frequently Short Supply

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“The closest enemy ship might be your own.”

Wisdom Fool Greed Insight Stupidity Selfish Foolish Decisions Self Sabotage

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“A red light is less about our need to stop. Rather, it’s more about the fact that someone at that intersection has a green one.”

Wisdom Red Green Decisions Consequences Stop Go

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“If you give a dog a bone and then try to take it away you will most certainly get something, but it won’t be a bone. For when our stupidity drives a decision, we’re going to end up bleeding somewhere.”

Wisdom Dog Stupid Foolish Ignorant Decisions

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“Freedom (properly understood) is less about the privilege that we’ve been granted to make decisions. Rather, I think that it’s far more about the opportunity that we have not to make them when we shouldn’t.”

Wisdom Freedom Privilege Decisions Thoughtfulness Fourth Of July Liberties

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“We can choose to go wherever the winds of life happen to blow us, or we can intentionally chart a course that will blow us away. And as I ponder that thought, I realize that there are very few decisions in life whose destinations are so frighteningly opposite.”

Wisdom Calling Determination Goals Decisions Foolishness Deliberate Life Choices Circumstance

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“If I’m concerned about why I’ve changed in the way I have, I might start by being concerned about the places where I’ve been.”

Wisdom Past Change Attitude Future Decisions Present Consequences Repercussions

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“It’s not so much about the difficult place that I’m at, although that’s what’s probably got most of my attention. Rather, it’s more about how I got here. Because whatever that is, if I don’t change it I’m going to live out the whole of my life is some pretty similar places.”

God Wisdom Choices Jesus Depression Stupidity Foolish Decisions Problems Discernment

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“If I end up at the edge of this cliff one more time than the number of times I’ve walked away from it, I need to burn my map, trade in my compass and ask God for a new set.”

God Wisdom Christian Jesus Foolish Decisions Compass Cliff Map

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“Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings; it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.”

Wisdom Wise Genius Strategy Intelligence Decisions Airplane Discernment Runway Plane

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“I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.”

Wisdom Dark Ego Direct Goals Foolish Objectives Decisions Nasty Foolishness Desires Egotism Egotistical Passions Steer

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“My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.”

God Wisdom Fool Absence Foolish Decisions Decision Making Foolishness Absent Discernment Immature Immaturity Acumen Guess

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“Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.”

Wisdom Leadership Decision Leader Plans Strategy Foolish Decisions Foolishness Tactics Discernment Plan Discretion Decide Strategies Poor Planning

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“Decisions are the privilege we’ve been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly.”

Wisdom Decision Paper Privilege Decisions Lives Script Pen Deciding Rightly

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