Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 29

• Readiness, not age, is the gauge for tragedy in death.

• Men are the work of the hands of God, but nations are the work of the hands of men.

• The cause of interrelational displeasure must be discontinued before it can be propitiated.

• Wisdom and strength are mutual ballasts.  Where one is enervated, the other must compensate.
• If you don't have strength to fight some things, you need the wisdom to avoid them.

• The only prerequisite for love is understanding.

• Logic should teach you that the ineluctable result of putting everything in God's hands is seeing God's hand in everything.

• Religion is fire:
• It is man's greatest asset when directed by proper authority.
• It is man's greatest foe if left to its own whim

• Consider yourself nothing, and if any consider you something, it will be a gain.

• No man should be honored above what he stood for.

• The word immoral means illegal by the laws of the universe.

• "Humility isn't denying your strengths.  It's acknowledging your weaknesses."

• In prayer you are not using God.  God is using you.

• To apologize, you have to be in disagreement with your past self.
• Credibility is one of the most underrated human needs; it is how we monetize respect.
• The reason apologizing is hard is that it removes credibility from oneself and confers it upon the other.

• A human that will remember...now, there is a remarkable individual.

• A simple observation of fact is more enticing than a lesson with a built-in judgment.

• Guile is saying something that is true to make someone believe something that isn't true.

• In the end, the godly are vindicated.  If you are unvindicated, either you are ungodly or it is not the end.

• The number one cause of being upset with someone is the belief that they are upset with you.

• A good man does not consistently do right by virtue and strength.  He does right by knowing his limits and not approaching them.

• All joy ultimately comes from gratitude.

• For an atheist, all good things come to an end.  For a Christian, all ends come to a good thing.

• The amount of credit and blame you are willing to take for your children should be equal.

• If you are quick to take offense to a contrary position, that means you are not secure in your own.

• The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

• The only time rebellion has potential for good is when it is rooted in something other than itself.

• The key to every attitude problem lies in perspective.

• You will know when you see God clearly because you will inevitably see yourself clearly.

• A good communicator must 1.) have a good imagination and 2.) be perceptive because he/she must use both to grasp how the other person is thinking.

• If you keep God as a last resort, the devil will ensure you have no shortage of vain resorts.

• Faith is an extrapolation of knowledge.
• No faith which is not primarily based in knowledge is legitimate.

• Effective leadership steeps itself in the teapot that is the laymen.

• The price of Heaven, at any cost, is cheap.

• Those who are most sure they understand the entirety are typically those who have grasped the least of it.

• A child in pain calls for mother.  A child in danger calls for father.

• True listening is not trying to get in a place where you can understand what someone said.  True listening is trying to get in a place where you understand what would cause you to say the same thing.