Turn to Philippians chapter 4 - Philippians chapter 4, and we'll be looking at verses 1-9. And I've entitled this "Don't Bother Me; I Can't Cope"; or "How To Get Rid of Tension Headaches"; or "How To Be an Adequate Christian."
It's for sure that most people can't cope with life - that is for sure. For many people life is a very horrible experience if they really, carefully examine it. Many people don't like their families. They don't like the one they're married to very well, at least they think they like somebody else better. They don't like their jobs. They don't like their income. They live a kind of a situational misery that really is personal ministry imposed on every situation, because it doesn't matter if the situation changes - they seem to remain about as miserable.
After offering us these kind of stupidly simplistic answers that real happiness is found in good breath produced by Certs, clear floors produced by Johnson's Wax, white teeth according to Crest, coffee made by Mrs. Olsen, and manliness produced by stuffing leaves in your mouth and setting them on fire, which immediately necessitates that you go back to Certs and start all over again. After having said all of that, we haven't really gotten anywhere, have we?
And yet these super-simplistic answers are offered to us and the commercials are invariably couched in the most blissful situations. If you do all of this, you will be happy, beloved, wise, winsome, moderately wealthy, with well-behaved children and personal charm. And life becomes a gentle breeze, a happy-go-lucky experience thanks to Right Guard.
And when you really get down to it, nobody's kidding anybody. Because it is the same media that also produces the fact that they know that all of this doesn't work. Because the same people go right about, after these commercials, selling you a list of products to get rid of the tension that mouthwash and all the rest of it doesn't relieve. And the next step in the line is to tell you about all of the little things you can get at the drug store so that you will be able to cope with life.
And I listed the ones I saw at the drug store that I go to, to buy shaving cream - Aspirin, orange-flavored for kids; Anacin; Excedrin; Tegrin; Zeramin; Measurin; Ascriptin; Aspergum; BC; Bufferin; Empirin; Dissolve; Tylenol, Persistine; Miles' Nervine; Quiet World; Compose. And if all of that doesn't work, there's one called Cope, which says it's a unique formula for the relief of tension headaches. And if you haven't gotten it together by bedtime, there's Sleep-eze, Sominex, or Nite-all. If none of that works you can go to the doctor and the doctor will invariably give you a prescription that involves Valium, Miltown, Compozine, Librium, or Thorazine, and you can go home and take those and then you'll be able to cope.
But none of it seems to work. And everybody's psychosis and neurosis seems to be multiplying. Somebody said in one area of Hollywood there's so many psychiatrists that it's called the Mental Block. If that doesn't do it, there's alcohol - usually combined with drugs, marijuana, heroine, cocaine, morphine, LSD, and so it goes. And it's just another level of trying to live life. If that doesn't work, kill yourself.
The number four cause of death in the high school campus is suicide, and it's now number one on the college campus. People can't cope, let's face it. They don't know what life's all about. They haven't got the foggiest idea. E. Stanley Jones is right, "Man doesn't know how to live."
I think of the account of Ernest Hemingway, the well-known author. A magazine, at one point, featured an article on him as a man who really learned how to live. And the article had a by-line that said that, "Hemingway had proven that you could, you could beat sin." The old, antiquated, Victorian, puritanical concept of sin could be done in very easily, and Hemingway was living proof. It went on to say that he had done everything possible - traveled everywhere, fought in revolutions, and so forth and so on. And he was living proof that you can cheat so-called sin and get away with it and really live life to its fullest.
Ten years to the very month later that that article came out, Hemingway took a gun, put it to his head, and blew his brains out. He never learned how to live, and he paid for it a high price.
Now everybody's got problems. Job said, "Man is born unto trouble." Everybody's got problems. The question is not Who's got problems? The question is Who's got victory over problems? That's the question, Who can cope with it?
Now there are only three ways to handle problems in life, only three ways to live life. You either break out - you get a rash or a panic or you get angry. Or you break down - you go inside and silently withdraw and eat your insides out and get all kinds of psychosomatic illnesses. Or you break through in victory. You either break out, break down, or break through.
And to break through is the only way to live. That's the only way; there is no other way. To be really alive to the fullest in the richest sense is to break through the trouble and come out victorious. You say, "Yeah, I understand. How?" Well, in order to see how, and I'm not going to try to be over-simplistic, I do want to give you what the Word of God says as a basic answer. I think to see how, we look at the apostle Paul. If ever a man lived in adverse circumstances and broke through incessantly, it was Paul. And he becomes the pattern in our text, Philippians 4. Look at verse 9: "Those things which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do." Stop there.
Now Paul says, if you're going to live life, look at it as you see it evidenced in the way I live it. Now boy, you've got to be confident of your spiritual life to be able to set yourself up as the pattern. For a Christian to be able to say to the rest of the Christian community, "If you want to know how to live life, look at me." You say that's the height of egoism. Not necessarily. It is if you're not really the best one to look at. The apostle Paul even went further than that. He said, "Be followers of me." You say, "Paul, no; that's not right." "Yes it is because I'm following Jesus Christ. I'm translating the life of Christ into my life in order that you might pattern yours after mine."
And so Paul set the standard up there. This is not pride, this is Paul saying, "I've learned how to cope with life, and I want share it with you." It's not pride. It's being desirous of communicating what he's learned to everybody else. It's generosity, dear ones, not pride. He's learned the secret of coping with life. He's learned the secret of victory, and he says, "Now you watch me, and the way I do it you do it." And he was adequate. He was so adequate that he could sing in jail. He was so adequate that he could stand boldly before the Greeks on Mars Hill and declare his faith without flinching. He could stand nose-to-nose with Felix, Festus, and Agrippa with his life in their hands and do so fearlessly. The adequacy in the life of Paul allowed him to be prisoner in his own house and never complain. It finally allowed him to lay his head on a chopping block, and somebody severed it from his body. And all of that because Paul was adequate. And he says, "What you've learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, you do it. Pattern your life after me. I know how to meet life. I've learned the secret." This is not pride. This is generosity, sharing with us.
You say, "Well, what was it that brought about such adequacy?" All right, we're going to back up now from verses 1-8, and we're going to see the keys to real adequacy. There are many keys to adequate living.
Key number one: an adequate stand, an adequate stand. The first thing that comes into my mind when I think about this is that, if you don't know where you are, if you don't understand your place in the universe, as my dad used to say, "If you're nothing but a piece of protoplasm waiting to become manure, and that's your philosophy of life, then you're in real trouble." If you only exist for "boxing day," to be slapped in a pine box and dropped in the ground and have somebody throw a lily on you, you're in real bad shape.
There must be a reason, there must be something upon which I can plant my feet and firmly stand. I've got to have a reason for living. There's got to be a rhyme for my existence. And I think, in a sense, this is what we begin to see in chapter 4, verse 1. At least it's alluded to, and we're stretching it a little bit in its initial sense, but let's look at verse 1. "Therefore, my brethren and dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved." Now that's the first principle of adequacy: a firm stand, an adequate stand. Adequate living begins with being firmly grounded.
Now notice it says, "Stand fast in the Lord." Now this adequate stand is in Christ. There is no other adequate stand. The term "in Christ" is all over the place. One hundred and thirty-two times in Paul's Letters he talks about being "in Christ." The Christian lives in Christ as a bird lives in the air, as a fish lives in the water, as roots of a plant live in the soil - so the believer lives in Christ. He is in a union. His whole existence is pervaded by the presence of Jesus Christ. He is in Christ.
And what it means is simply a total union with Christ. Paul goes so far as to say we are — he says, "I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live." What's the next line? "Yet it isn't even me that's living; it's Christ in me." I am indissolubly linked in a common life with Christ. And we read about it in the text. It says, "Christ in you." In some places, "the hope of glory." In other places it says, "You in Christ." We are connected to Christ. Jesus says in John 15, "True branches abide" – Where? - "in Me." And so there is a sense in which we are in Christ. Now that is the basis of a firm stand. If a man attempts to live in the world apart from Christ, he has nothing to stand on. Everything is shifting sand.
So, to begin with, a man must be in Christ. You see, existence. It's like the ancients said, "You know, man is restless until he finds his rest in God." Existence is a floating thing. It's a great, mysterious, variable until a man meets God. And then all of a sudden he knows why he exists, and he knows what living's all about. And he knows what loving's all about. And he knows what time is all about and what forever is all about. And he knows what purpose is. But he doesn't know it until he meets God. And the only way a man can ever meet God is through Christ. "No man cometh unto the Father," said Jesus - What? – "except by me." And the only way you can ever know Christ is to hear about Him, read about Him in the gospels, see what He did, and believe it with your whole heart.
And so, to begin with, an adequate facing of life demands an adequate stand. Adequacy begins with a personal relationship with a living God, through a living Christ, by faith.
Now I want to illustrate this to you from one of my favorite people in the Bible, Habakkuk. Turn to Habakkuk. Habakkuk was having a problem. He looked at Israel, chapter 1. He looked at Israel, and Israel was messed up. And so he said, "God, you've got to do something in Israel. Israel is going down the drain. There is iniquity and there is all of this." And verse 4, he says, "The law is slack and justice doesn't go forth and the wicked compass the righteous and justice is perverted and, aww, it's terrible here in Israel. God bring revival; do something." And God says, "All right, I'll send the Chaldeans to wipe out Israel." And Habakkuk says, "That's not what I expected, the Caldeans." And he can't figure - the Caldeans are worse than the Israelites. How can God use somebody worse than they are to judge them? Why doesn't God just come down and give them a spiritual revival? Why does He wipe them out like that? And he doesn't understand it.
And you say, "Uh, oh, he's on the border of not being adequate." And you're right. He's beginning to waver, see, and he's on, he's on what we call "the soft soil." You see, he's standing out there where he doesn't know the answers. But he's smart. And immediately he jumps back on solid rock and plants his feet and says, "All right, all right. Now I've got to go over this thing right."
So you see what he's doing? He's gotten off the soft soil of what he doesn't understand and he's standing on the rock of what he does understand, you see? That's the only way to handle your problems - is to firmly stand on what you do know. God is eternal; He reigns in eternity. Hum, good.
The second thing he comes up with: God is self-existent. "Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One?" The word "Lord, Jehovah," from the Hebrew word Yahweh, from the verb "to be, I am," that's self-existence. God is self-existent. He is the eternally existing One.
There's a second vital fact about God, Habakkuk says. "God is not in any sense dependant on what happens in this world. He is self-existent within Himself, and this world doesn't affect Him." So God is eternal and He's self-existent. In other words, He's outside the flux of these petty little things, and He's in control.
The third thing he comes up with is: God is holy. He says this: "mine Holy One." And, in verse 13, "Thou are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look upon iniquity." He says, "God, You're holy." What does that mean? "God, You won't make a mistake. God, You always do what's right. Hey, God, I'm feeling the rock under my feet, see." He says, "God, I know You'll do right." God always does right. "God is light," said John, "and in Him is no" - What? - "darkness at all." Always does right.
And he comes up with this, "God is almighty." He says, "O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment: and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction." You see, he's getting his answer. "God, You're so strong and powerful. You're sovereign, and you're at work."
And then, lastly, he says, God is faithful. Look at it, middle of verse 12, "we shall not die." God said of Israel, "I'll be their God, and they shall be my people." And Habakkuk says, "Hey, God made a covenant, God made a promise, and God doesn't tell lies. God is faithful."
And so Habakkuk feels so terrific and he just takes off and he just starts praising the Lord. I call it PTLA, "praise the Lord anyhow." He doesn't understand the issue. He doesn't even understand why God's doing what He's doing, but he does understand God. And he knows that God is powerful, and self-existent, and outside the flux of history, and does what He wants to do, and never does wrong, and takes care of his own. And having established that in his mind, he is believing what he believes and he's standing firm. And when you get to the end of chapter 3 he makes this great statement in verse 17: "Although the fig tree shall not blossom" - Boy, that'll be the day won't it? - "neither shall fruit be in the vines: the labour of the olive shall fail, the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I'll rejoice in the Lord...joy in the God of my salvation."
You say, "Habakkuk, you've come a long way." That's right, and God still hasn't changed the situation. He came a long way because he got off the soft sand of what he didn't understand and stood on what he did. Now there's only one way to handle problems of life. There's only one way to live with life and that's to back up and stand on what you know is true. That's having a firm stand.
Now go back to the end of Philippians. And this is such a basic point that we're spending a little more time on this than we will on the others. The word, interestingly enough, to "stand fast" - in verse 1 of chapter 4 – is stkete. It even sounds like driving a stake - stkete. And it means "to stand." It's used for a soldier, standing firm in his position in the midst of battle, with the enemy all around him, and he never moves. Now I say, if you're frustrated and if you're not able to cope with life, then you're letting your practice get messed up. If your practice is consistent with your position, you're adequate. You got it?
Listen, positionally, you're adequate because God's on your team. But if you want to wander away from your position and practice out here, you're going to mess up. What you need to do is line up your practice with your position, and you can stand firm. The first key to adequacy then, is an adequate stand.
Second one: an adequate love, an adequate love. You know that not loving makes unhealthy, miserable people? Let's look at this adequate love in verse 1. Watch how it just gushes out of Paul. "Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for" - can't you just read love; he just loves these people - "my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved." Now, if my English grammar teacher had been looking at that, and I had written it, she'd say, "You're redundant. You don't need to say, 'dearly beloved' twice in the same sentence." You know what? Grammarically, she would be right.
The apostle Paul loved two ladies that weren't helping his work one bit. That's the test of love, isn't it? That's an adequate kind of love. An adequate love loves the unlovely. "Euodias" means "sweet fragrance," and "Synthyche" means "pleasant." And they were anything but.
And Paul says in verse 3, "I intreat thee also, true yokefellow." In the Greek the word "yokefellow" is suzugos, and it's very likely that it's a proper name and that it shouldn't be translated into "yokefellow." It should remain Suzugos; that he is saying, "Suzugos, help those women." In other words, there's a guy in the Philippian church named Suzugos, and he's saying, " Suzugos, will you go get those two ladies together? Suzugos, help those women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life." So Paul sends a man named Suzugos, very likely, to get them together.
You know there are people who are sick in hospitals because they have been eaten apart by bitterness and animosity and hatred toward other people? Paul put it this way in Colossians (this is Moffatt's translation, which is very good). He said, "So put to death those members that are in earth. Off with anger, rage, malice, and slander." (Those are all things that come about as a result of the lack of love.) "You have stripped off the old nature and its practices. Be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper, forbear and forgive each other and above all, you must be loving, for love is the link of a perfect life." You can't really live life adequately unless you love people. You'll eat yourself alive.
Running around with bitterness - it's disastrous, not only spiritually but physically. Real living is real loving. And if there's somebody you don't love, you need to spend some time on your knees and ask God to help you love that person. And then you need to go to that person and ask their forgiveness for not loving them and see if you can't build a relationship of love. It's the healthiest thing you'll ever do in your life, apart from knowing Christ. The love of Christ is yours. Yield to it's flow in your life. You don't even need to generate the love - it's there; just let it get out.
So, adequacy then is an adequate stand and an adequate love. The third thing that makes for adequacy in life - and we're hurrying a little - is adequate joy. You know happy people are healthy people. And happy people are people who really live life. Voltaire, the atheist, once exclaimed this: "Men are tormented atoms in a bit of mud devoured by death, a mockery of fate, this world, this theatre of pride and wrong, swarms with sick fools who only talk of happiness." Why, that is a really lousy outlook. You know what? He's right. He hit that thing right on the nose: "This theatre of pride and wrong, this world swarms with sick fools who only talk of happiness." He's right.
People are inadequate and they're unhappy and miserable. Over ten million Americans suffer emotional and mental illness. As many hospital beds are occupied by the mentally ill as by all medical and surgical patients combined. And according to some statistics, the majority of the medical and surgical patients have their illness directly as the result of emotional stress. One out of every twenty Americans will have a psychotic disturbance severe enough to confine him to a hospital for the insane. Now that's the number one health problem in America.
So whenever your circumstances get heavy, who do you rejoice in? You rejoice in the Lord. The apostle Paul is in a jail. That's bad circumstances. He's singing. That's rejoicing in the Lord. You always can rejoice in the Lord. It's interesting. It's seventy times in the New Testament we're told to rejoice. You know what rejoicing is? Watch this for a thought. It's reckless abandonment to Jesus Christ in any circumstance. It's just constantly saying, "Hey Lord, I'm yours, and I don't understand what's going on, but I'm so glad I belong to you." That's rejoicing.
Now, let me give you two things about it. This kind of Christian joy has two qualities. One: it's incessant - always, always, always. Why? Because it's in the Lord; it's not in the circumstances. Got it? It's in the Lord. And I don't mean it's some kind of a stupid grin on your face all the time. I mean the kind of, the kind of, the kind of joy that comes because of your relationship to Jesus Christ. Have you ever gone through those times of real sorrow and just begun to turn and put your thoughts on Jesus Christ and all of a sudden sense some joy? And so, consequently, there can be joy in the midst of sorrow. It's incessant. It abides over the circumstance.
Second thing about it: it's independent. It's not joy because of; it's joy in spite of. It's PTLA, "praise the Lord anyhow." The circumstance is immaterial.
So, adequacy. Adequacy involves an adequate joy, as well as an adequate love, as well as an adequate stand.
You know there are some people who just go through the world like a bull in a china closet. No wonder they've got ulcers. No wonder they're always upset. No wonder they've got coli – there's just Boom, leaving a trail of strewn people; you know, as they go. They don't even have, they don't understand how to adjust themselves to people and be gentle and loving and tender hearted, you know? Aww, it's such a rich quality. One of the fruit of the Spirit, you know, is gentleness, isn't it? "Gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness," and so forth.
I like 2 Timothy 2:24 which says - Paul's wisdom to Timothy – "The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle," "be gentle." And, oh, I love so much 2 Corinthians if, pray God, that this could be so in my life some day in God's grace and timing as He refines me. But listen to this, 2 Corinthians 10:1, "Now I, Paul myself, beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ." Ahh, there's something about Christ that is just desirable in terms of being gentle. And yet He was firm. He wasn't Caspar Milquetoast, you know? He wasn't always condescending and watering down His message. He was firm and when it needed to be, He was a lion. But somehow there was a kind of pervading gentleness about Him that drew women and little children to His side. Oh, that's the beautiful relationship.
I think of David, you know, who was a great warrior who slew Goliath and, you know, Saul "has killed his thousands, David his ten thousands" - great warrior. And yet it was David who could sit down with a harp in his hand and soothe the savage breast. Yeah, there was something gentle, as well as something vigorous and bold and brave about the man. And I think this is the kind of thing it's talking about. There needs to be expressed in the life of a Christian a gentleness.
Now, it's illustrated by Paul, as are all of these things. First Thessalonians 2; I love this. When Paul had gone to Thessalonica with the gospel, it had been with a very, very certain attitude, and he explains what that attitude was. Verse 3 of chapter 2 - listen to this; it's so beautiful. He says, "Now we came to you guys and gave you the gospel some time ago. Let me just tell you how we did it." Verse 3, "For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor uncleanness, nor in guile" - we weren't trying to deceive you – "but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts." We didn't give you the flattering things, verse 5, "as you know, nor with a cloke of covetousness;" - we didn't do it for money, but watch this, verse 7 – "But we were" – What's the next word? – "gentle." Isn't that good? You say, "Well, how gentle were you Paul?" We were "gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children." "We were gentle" - Watch this one - "like a nursing mother." That's what it means. Now there is nothing more tender in terms of expressing relationships than that nursing mother and that little infant. Oh, what a gentle picture. And Paul says, "That's the way we were with you." Ahh, that's something admirable.
Paul had a great gentleness in his heart. You know the old song said, "Try a little tenderness." That's good - instead of crashing into every situation. Instead of always asserting yourself, try a little gentleness. Oh, we need to be reminded of this so often. Learn to treat everybody like a nursing mother treats that little, precious life in its arms. Ohh, that's gentleness.
Paul was a lion of courage. Paul fought violently tooth and nail against sin. But Paul was like a lamb when it came to being gentle. And you know these are the kind of people who are healthy people. Because these are the kind of people whose fire and whose fury is not out of their personality, but it is in response to something that is evil and something that is wrong. And at that point they have a right to show some fury, you see? But in their hearts there is a basic kind of gentleness. That's a healthy person.
And so adequacy involves an adequate gentleness. An adequate stand, and adequate love, and an adequate joy.
Fifth: an adequate security. And I love this as well. It says - Watch it, verse 5, in the middle - "The Lord is at hand." Now, what's the next one? "Be anxious for nothing." Now stop there. You say, "Is he talking about the Second Coming?" That's absolutely foreign to the text. There's nothing in this thing about the Second Coming at all. You say, "What does it mean, 'The Lord is at hand'?" He means this: "Don't ever forget the Lord is near. Don't worry about anything." Did you get that? That is so good. What have you been worried about? The Lord's right here. What is he saying? Practice His presence.
Years ago, under Stalin, a group of thirty Russian peasants were met in secret to worship Jesus Christ. Suddenly it was, their worship was halted by the arrival of Stalin's agents. The soldiers marched in and ordered the name of every person taken down, and one of the other men came up and started taking names, and it all was finished. And an old man spoke up, and he said, "There's one name you don't have." "I have them all," snapped the soldier. The peasant said, "No you don't." And a little argument began. Finally the soldier says, "Who is it then?" To which the man replied, "Well, it's the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, He's here too." You know, he was right, and he was conscious of His presence. Practicing the presence of Christ.
There was an old Indian who would come to church and sit on the front row and always a half an hour early. He'd sit there, kind of face set, you know. And after he'd come early, finally somebody said, "Why is he doing that? Every week he just sits there." One of them said, "Tonto," or whatever his name was - can't remember his name - "why do you come early like this and just sit there?" And this is what he said - I love this - he said, "Me come early, me sit down, me think Jesus." It's good, isn't it? "Me think Jesus." He became preoccupied at the presence of Jesus Christ. And that became his security. That's everybody's security. I am so secure when I rest in the presence of Jesus Christ.
That's security. What do you have to fear? The Lord is here. Man-made securities are never more than tissue-paper towers. Money, fame, friends, bombs, armies, medicines, hospitals are just little expediencies to postpone the inevitable. But we have a real security, the presence of Jesus Christ. God promises that "I'll be a friend that sticketh closer than" - What? Is it true? It sure is. Practice His presence. Oh, Christ-conscious living. You say, "Oh, I'd like to live that way. How do you, how do you just constantly have Christ in your mind?" Practicing the presence of Christ is having your mind saturated with His thoughts. And there's only one way to do that, and that's to study the Word of God. The more you study the Word of God, the more God's thoughts are in your mind. The more God's thoughts are in your mind, the more the presence of Christ is in your mind. The more His presence is in your mind, the more secure you are. So, an adequate security, the Lord is near, what do I have to worry about?
Sixth, and lastly: an adequate knowledge. And this is so important. Verse 8, "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true" - Oh, that's important - "whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise" - Do what? - "think on these things."
Well, it's a simple thing, you know. You are what you think. Pump garbage in and the garbage will pump itself right back out again. Whatever you feed your brain is what'll determine the way you live. Kids will say to me sometimes at camp and stuff, "John, I don't know why. I want to live for the Lord, and I can't seem to live for the Lord. I have all these evil thoughts in my mind and all. I can't get rid of these things. I'd like to get out of the gutter once in a while. I don't know what to do about it."
I say, "Well tell me something, What do you read?" "Well, I don't know." They always get these silly looks on their face. "Well, what do you with your spare time?" "Well, I go to the movies." "What do you look at?" "Well, I don't want to say." "Well, what do you expect? Feed garbage, you're going to pump garbage out. Put the Word of God in and you're going to find that you begin to live of the Word. Saturate yourself with the Word of God.
I've shared this with you before. I'll give it to some of you because you're new. It's just a little thing that I learned. When I wanted to really learn the Bible, I developed a little pattern. And that was to read the same book over repetitiously, because you learn line upon line, line upon line, precept upon precept, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little, etc., as Isaiah said. You learn by repetition. And so I began a little study that helped me. I started in 1 John, which is a good place to start. Sit down and read it straight through. For some people that would be a first time they ever read one book straight through. But it's written in flow and context, and so I sat down and read 1 John straight through.
Second day sit down and read 1 John straight through. Third day sit down and read 1 John straight through. Fourth day sit down and read 1 John straight through. Then the fifth day, that's the key, you sit down and you read 1 John straight through. Thirty days. You know what happens at the end of thirty days? You know 1 John. You've got it. And you've hidden away the words.
See, you're beginning to, you're beginning to saturate yourself with the Word of God. And you begin to talk about all these things. Somebody says, "Where does it talk about God - the love of God?" "That's 1 John over here, so forth: 'confess our sins.' Chapter 1 and all this, and the characteristics of a Christian. Chapter 2 and all the various things begin to fall in line. You do this through the whole New Testament and you say, "It'll take forever." Two and a half years - in two and half years you can do the whole New Testament and really know something.
And you'll begin to say, when you're reading through one, "Hey, I remember that's over there." And you can cease being a concordance cripple and really be a student of the Scriptures, because you can begin to relate these things back and forth.
But, you see, you must read to retain. You must read at the level of saturation reading so that you're really learning what you read. Otherwise, you're just wasting your time. Don't read the Old Testament that way. Just read it through in the narrative fashion.
But you see, you must establish priorities. "Think on these things." What do you spend your time thinking? We've got a book store here with things that you can enrich your life with. The Bible in your hands. There are tapes here. There are tapes put out by Bible teachers all around the world that would be so good. What are you saturating yourself with? It will reproduce itself in your living.
If you really want to be adequate, you put the right stuff in. The right stuff will come. Adequacy climaxes in an adequate knowledge. Feed the new man. See, feed the new man. And then I like this, he makes a little contrast, in closing, in verse 7 he says, "The peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." And then in verse 9 he says, "And the God of peace shall be with you."
An adequate Christian has the peace of God and the God of peace. A marvelous promise. Not only is God with us but His very peace pervades us. We have the peace of God for our guiding and the God of peace for our going.
Listen, I believe we can cope with life - I can. I really can. And many of you can too. And it's because we have these priorities.
Somebody's written this, and I close with it: "I cannot know why suddenly the storm shall rage so fiercely round me in its wrath. But this I know, God watches all my path, and I can trust. I may not draw aside the mystic veil that hides the unknown future from my sight nor know if, for me, awaits the dark or light, but I can trust. I have no power to look across the tide to see where here the land beyond the river. But this I know, I shall be God's forever, and I will trust." Let's pray.
God, whatever it be, we pray tonight that all of us might commit ourselves anew and afresh to the principles that can bring about real adequacy that we might live lives that will "put to silence the ignorance of foolish men." That we might shut the mouths of the critics who would condemn our faith because our lives don't match what we say. God help us to be able to live what we preach and to make Christianity believable because it works. We'll give you the praise for what you can do and desire to do as we yield to you in Christ's name, Amen.


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a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins
Bestowin the Easter Mass Plenary Indulgence.
Indulgence is the act of indulging. It means tolerance, catering to someone's every desire, and something in which someone indulges. It denotes an indulgent act, a favour granted and gratification. In Catholic theology, an indulgence technically is a remission of the temporal punishment which would otherwise be inflicted for a previously forgiven sin as a natural consequence of having sinned.
CONTENT : A - F , G - L , M - R , S - Z , See also , External links
Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author
A - FEdit
I have fixed my eyes on the spaces that heaven's light illuminates, that I may not lay too heavy a strain on the indulgence with which you have accompanied me over the dreary and heartbreaking course by which men have passed to freedom; and because the light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be. . -John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton.
I have fixed my eyes on the spaces that heaven's light illuminates, that I may not lay too heavy a strain on the indulgence with which you have accompanied me over the dreary and heartbreaking course by which men have passed to freedom; and because the light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton in: The History of Freedom and Other Essays, Cosimo, Inc., 1 November 2007, p. 60.
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
Saint Bernard in: Yale Studies in English, Volume 125, Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1954, p. 118.
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.
Sarah Bernhardt in: Elizabeth Silverthorne Sarah Bernhardt, Infobase Publishing, 2003, p. 104.
Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales, tredition, 7 February 2012, p. 269.
Every human creature is sensible of the propensities to some infirmity of temper which it should be his care to correct and subdue, particularly in the early period of life; else, when arrived at a state of maturity, he may relapse into those faults which were originally in his nature, and which will require to be diligently watched and kept under through the whole course of life.
Dr. Blair in: The new handbook of illustration; or, Treasury of themes, meditations [&c., signed E.S.P., 1874, p. 499.
In principle there is a difference between violence which is incidental and violence which is infected for the indulgence of cruelty. The violence of sado-masochistic encounters involves the indulgence of cruelty by sadists and the degradation of victims. Such violence is injurious to the participants and unpredictably dangerous.
R.V. Brown, in Cases and Materials on Criminal Law, Oxford University Press, 30 September 2010, p. 264.
I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.
Rob Brydon in: John Preston How Rob Brydon learnt to play nice, The Telegraph, 17 September 2012.
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires.
Edmund Burke in Frank L. Day Impact of a Father's Reflection, Xulon Press, 2010, p. 44.
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.
A. S. Byatt in: Encounter, Volume 61, Martin Secker & Warburg., 1983, p. 305
The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. Youth are sensual. The Bible stands in their way. It prohibits the indulgence of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. - Richard Cecil.
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close—knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self—indulgence and consumption.
Jimmy Carter in: Andrew J. Bacevich The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War, Oxford University Press, 09-May-2013, p. 101.
The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. Youth are sensual. The Bible stands in their way. It prohibits the indulgence of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.
Richard Cecil in: Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil … With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt … To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition, Johnstone & Hunter, 1854, p. 135.
It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
William Ellery Channing, in The works of Wm. Ellery Channing, James Hedderwick & Son, 1835, p. 32.
If you consider that the constant tenor of the gospel precepts is to promote love, peace, good-will among men you will not doubt that the cultivation of an amiable disposition is a great part your religious duty; since nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow creatures, than the indulgence of an ill-temper.
Hester Chapone in:Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Cambridge University Press, 21 November 2013, p. 120.
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
Theodore L. Cuyler in:The Church Times, Volumes 8-10, The Diocese, 1897, p. 189.
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
Mitch Daniels in: Kathryn Jean Lopez Mitch Daniels Takes CPAC, National Review Online, 11 February 2011.
As a prudent man, he is not much disturbed by invitations which carry their obvious and certain penalties; what shakes him is the enticement bare of any probable secular retribution. Ergo, the worst and damndest indulgence is that which goes unwhipped.
Langdon Davies in: David M. Rooney The Wine of Certitude: A Literary Biography of Ronald Knox, Ignatius Press, 2009, p. 146.
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life, constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age; but of late, while the arts of assembling in large societies have been practised, varied by all forms, and pushed on to all excesses.
Isaac D'Israeli in:Miscellanies of literature, by the author of 'Curiosities of literature', 1840, p. 402.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli in: Richard Zera Business Wit & Wisdom, Beard Books, 31-Mar-2005, p. 100.
I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.
Jacob Epstein in: Milton Hindus The Jewish East Side: 1881 – 1924, Transaction Publishers, p. 6.
When we are dead: it is the living only who cannot be forgiven—the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind.
George Eliot in: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 86: Lifted Wail, William Blackwood, 1859, p. 24.
But the duty to which you have called me must be performed; grant me, I pray you, your indulgence and your sympathy.
Edward Everett in Western Christian Advocate, Volume 77, 1911, p. 11.
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald in: Novels and Stories, 1920-1922, Library of America, 2000, p. 431.
G - LEdit
Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint...Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment, and increases the capacity for service. - Mahatma Gandhi.
Bernard d'Agesci (fr) with the golden book
Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint. ... Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment, and increases the capacity for service.
Mahatma Gandhi in: Larry Chang Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, Gnosophia Publishers, 2006, p. 619.
And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.
Edward Gibbon in: Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1, John Murray, 1846, p. 31.
In my present insistence on high standards you will see that there is less self-indulgence than resolve and application. I do not let the Christian monopolize the ideal of perfection.
André Gide in:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality, Transaction Publishers, 1 August 2010, p. 298.
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
Billy Graham in: Todd Starnes God Less America, Charisma Media, 6 May 2014, p. 210.
He could see naught but vanity in beauty
And naught but weakness in a fond caress,
And pitied men whose views of Christian duty
Allowed indulgence in such foolishness.
Daniel Gray in: John James Piatt The Union of American Poetry and Art: A Choice Collection of Poems by American Poets, Parts 1-14, W. E. Dibble, 1880, p. 179.
Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness, and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick bed with thorns and rack our sinking spirits with despair.
Reginald Heber in: Elon Foste New Cyclopædia of Prose Illustrations:, Funk & Wagnalls, 1877, p. 223.
They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.
Hammond in: Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language:, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805.
I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul - I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence.
Salma Hayek in: Eric Helms The Juice Generation: 100 Recipes for Fresh Juices and Superfood Smoothies, Simon and Schuster, 14 January 2014, p. 7.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt in: Bhimeswara Challa Man's Fate and God's Choice: An Agenda for Human Transformation, Trafford Publishing, 2011, p. 140.
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Lillian Helman in: Amy Elizabeth Dean Morning Light: A Book of Meditations to Begin Your Day, Hazelden Publishing, 21 August 2013, p. 6.
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
Shirley Henderson in: Jane Graham Meet the real Shirley Henderson, The Guardian, 11 March 2010.
...of the world and drudgery of business, seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.
David Hume in:Modern Philosophy (Second Edition): An Anthology of Primary Sources, Hackett Publishing, 2009, p. 548.
The taste for w:Luxuryluxuries increases with marvelous rapidity under indulgence.
George Payne Rainsford James in Henry Mills Alden Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 9, Harper & Brothers, 1854, p. 806
An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.
Criss Jami in:Venus in Arms, Criss Jami, 01-Jan-2012, p. 9.
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Richard Mentor Johnson in: William Bruce Wheeler, Susan Becker, Lorri Glover Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume I: To 1877, Volume 2, Cengage Learning, 1 January 2011, p. 149.
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
Juvenal in: Tania Ahsan The brilliant book of calm: Down to earth ideas for finding inner peace in a chaotic world, Infinite Ideas, 18 May 2008, p. 201.
As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and w:Stimulationstimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.
Alfred Charles Kinsey, et al., in: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Indiana University Press, 1948, p. 5.
I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
Lajos Kossuth in: Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman Select speeches, condensed and abridged, with Kossuth's express sanction, by F. W. Newman, 1853, p. 31.
Eat to live, not live to eat proverbial saying, late 14th century, distinguishing between necessity and indulgence; Diogenes Laertius says of Socrates, 'he said that other men live to eat, but he eats to live.
Diogenes Laertius in: Elizabeth Knowles The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Oxford University Press, 12 October 2006, p. 529.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor in: Thomas Chi Oil USA, OilUSA.Co, 1 December 2011, p. 7.
I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.
Nate Lowman in:Nate Lowman, Interview Magazine.
For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached. For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.
Martin Luther in:Veroffentlichungen, Volume 56, Institut für Europäische Geschichte (Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), 1969, p. 241.
M - REdit
Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences. - Catherine Malandrino.
I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime. - Kylie Minogue.
Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.
Catherine Malandrino in: Catherine Malandrino Loves Fur, Old Buildings, Cigarettes, New York Media LLC, 13 February 2011.
I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
Kylie Minogue in: Kathy Lette Kylie Minogue, Woman&Home.
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
Samuel E. Morison in: Capitalizing on Language Learners' Individuality: From Premise to Practice, Multilingual Matters, 11 December 2013, p. 198.
L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomize banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.
Geoff Mulgan in: Because you're worth it, The Guardian, 12 June 2006.
Pope was not content to satisfy; he desired to excel and therefore always endevoured to do his best; did not court the candour, but dared the judgement of his reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had nothing to be forgiven.
Alexander Pope in: Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets": With Macaulay's "Life of Johnson"., Macmillan, 1878, p. 415.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand in:Ayn Rand Novel Collection, Penguin, 6 September 2011.
It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement.
John Ridley in: D. Marvin Jones Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma, ABC-CLIO, 2013, p. 186.
If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
Rogers in: John Wilkes Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Volume 11, 1812.
If he has not the right spirit, the spirit which makes him scorn self-indulgence, timidity, and mere ease, that is if he has not the spirit which normally stands at the base of physical hardihood, physical prowess, then that boy does not amount to much, and he is ordinarily going.
Theodore Roosevelt in: Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v, Review of Reviews Publishing Company, 1910, p. 12.
A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.
Gretchen Rubin in: What Are Your Treats? Do You Have Any That Don't Look Like Treats?, The Happiness Project, 24 March 2014.
S - ZEdit
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be reliev'd by prayer;
Which pierces so, that it assaults
Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free.
William Shakespeare in: Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. A winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. First and second parts of King Henry IV. King Henry V. First and second parts of King Henry VI, G. Routledge & sons, limited, 1875, p. 32.
Relieved by prayer which pierces so, that it assaults mercy itself and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
William Shakespeare in: The Tempest, in Jim McGahern [A Leg Up on the Canon Book 4: Adaptations of Shakespeare's Romances and Poetry and Thompson's Hound of Heaven], iUniverse, 1 September 2012, p. 200.
I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.
Robin S. Sharma in:How I start my day: Robin Sharma, The Times of India, 20 June 2013.
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
Dan Simmons in:The Fall of Hyperion, Hachette UK, 18 November 2010, p. 106.
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe et al, in: Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly, Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878, p. 10.
Whoever visits some estates there, and witnesses the goodhumored indulgence of some masters and mistresses, and the affectionate loyalty of some slaves, might be tempted to dream the oft-fabled poetic legend of a patriarchal institution.
Harriet Beecher Stowe in:Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly, Sampson Low, Son and Company, 1853, p. 22
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music. - Rafael VinolyRafael Vinoly.
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
Rafael Vinoly in: Robin Finn, Classical Piano and Modern Design, The New York Times, 11 November 2011.
This is to be understood not as an eschewal of the enjoyment of life, but recognition that spiritual and religious goals are impeded by such indulgence. Those who practice ascetic lifestyles do not consider their practices virtuous in themselves.
Lindsey Wei in Valley Spirit: A Female Story of Daoist Cultivation, Singing Dragon, 15 January 2013, p. 62.
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
Charles Williams in: Peter J. Schakel, Charles A. Huttar Word and Story in C. S. Lewis: Language and Narrative in Theory and Practice, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 14 April 2008, p. 121.
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.
Marianne Williamson in:A Course In Weight Loss, Hay House, Inc, 2012, p. 157.
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
James Wolcott in:Norman Mailer Sent Me, Vanity Fair, November 2011.
it is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens.
George Washington, in Morton J. Frisch, Richard G. Stevens American Political Thought: The Philosophic Dimension of American Statesmanship, Transaction Publishers, 2011, p. 17.
it is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.
George Washington, American Political Thought: The Philosophic Dimension of American Statesmanship, Transaction Publishers, 2011, p. 17.
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
Walt Whitman in Prefcae to Leaves of Grass, quoted in: Timothy V. Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith Fluency Through Practice & Performance, Shell Education, 01-Jul-2010, p. 137.
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Q: ruby sort hash based on another hash I have the following two hashes:
db = {"1" => "first_name", "2" => "last_name", "5" => "status", "10" => "city"  }
csv = {"1" => "first_name", "2" => "last_name", "5" => "status", "7" => "address", "10" => "city" }

I want to order csv based on db, and if there are any keys in csv not in db, then I want to move them to the end of csv, so in the above example the result would look like this:
{"1" => "first_name", "2" => "last_name", "5" => "status", "10" => "city", "7" => "address" }

Since the key "7" wasn't in db hash, we just moved it to the end of the csv hash.
This is what I tried:
db = {"1" => "first_name", "2" => "last_name", "5" => "status", "10" => "city"  }
csv = {"1" => "first_name", "2" => "last_name", "5" => "status", "7" => "address", "10" => "city" }
rejects = csv.reject {|k| db.include? k }
result = csv.keep_if {|k,_| db.include? k }
result.merge!(rejects)
result
=> {"1"=>"first_name", "2"=>"last_name", "5"=>"status", "10"=>"city", "7"=>"address"}

It seems to work. But is it guaranteed to work? Will the merger always put the second hash at the end, or is there  a possibility that the merger could mix the hashes together without consideration of order?

A: You could do the following:
db_keys = db.keys
  #=> ["1", "2", "5", "10"]
keys = db_keys + (csv.keys-db_keys)
  #=> ["1", "2", "5", "10", "7"]
Hash[keys.zip(csv.values_at(*keys))]
  #=> { "1"=>"first_name", "2"=>"last_name", "5"=>"status",
  #    "10"=>"city", "7"=>"address"}

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David Simmons may refer to:

Politicians
 David Simmons (judge) (born 1940), politician and Chief Justice of Barbados
 David Simmons (Australian politician) (born 1947), former member of the Australian House of Representatives
 David H. Simmons (born 1952), American politician in Florida

Sports
 David Simmons (rugby league) (born 1984), Australian rugby league player
 Dave Simmons (basketball, born 1959), American basketball head coach for McNeese State University men's basketball team
 Dave Simmons (basketball, born 1963), American basketball player who played majority of career in the Australian NBL
 Dave Simmons (footballer) (1948–2007), English footballer
 Dave Simmons (linebacker, born 1943), American football player for the St. Louis Cardinals, New Orleans Saints, and Dallas Cowboys
 Dave Simmons (linebacker, born 1957), American football player for the Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions, Baltimore Colts and Chicago Bears
 David Simmons (rower) (born 1955), New Zealand representative rower

Other
 David Simmons (ethnologist) (1930–2015), New Zealand ethnologist, historian and author
 Dave Simmons (UK disc jockey), BBC Radio London and later journalist with US Worldwide Television News and Associated Press Television News

See also
David Simons (disambiguation)

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Citizens! est un groupe de pop rock britannique, originaire de Londres, en Angleterre. Le groupe comprend Tom Burke (chant), Thom Rhoades (guitare), Martyn Richmond (basse), Lawrence Diamond (claviers) et Mike Evans (batterie). Leur premier album, Here We Are, est publié par Kitsuné le 28 mai 2012 au Royaume-Uni et en Europe et le 9 octobre 2012 en Amérique du Nord.

Biographie
Tom Burke, chanteur du groupe, raconte ainsi la formation du groupe : {{citation|Tout s'est passé lors d'une soirée. Il était très tard, on était tous un peu bourrés et on s'engueulait sur quel morceau passer. Certains voulaient mettre Kanye West, d'autres Suicide. On s'est rendu compte qu'on n'avait pas du tout les mêmes goûts mais qu'on s'entendait bien. C'est là qu'on s'est dit qu'on pourrait réunir toutes nos envies, toutes nos influences dans un groupe et faire de la pop comme on l'entendait<ref name="Inrocks">[http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/critique-album/citizens-citoyens-dhonneur/ Citizens! : citoyens d'honneur] sur le site Les Inrocks.fr, consulté le 22 juillet 2012</ref>.}}

Le groupe est découvert par Kitsuné, qui les a publiés malgré l'apparente orientation élecro du magazine. Ils sont produits par Alex Kapranos, leader du groupe Franz Ferdinand, qu'ils ont rencontré ainsi :

Le single True Romance sort fin 2011, puis le single Reptile sort le 13 février 2012. Un remix du single True Romance par Gigamesh, est utilisé dans une publicité pour le magazine Grazia. En France, leur single est utilisé dans la publicité de Sodebo. Leur premier album, Here We Are,  sort le 28 mai 2012. Ils entament ensuite une série de concert, d'abord en Angleterre puis dans toute l'Europe, notamment en Allemagne, Suède, Serbie et France, en passant par le festival de Montreux en Suisse. En France, leur reprise de Feeling Good est utilisée dans une publicité pour Sosh début 2014.

Après une longue tournée mondiale, le groupe confirme sur Twitter en avril 2013 travailler sur un deuxième album. Ce second album est intitulé European Soul, et publié le 13 avril 2015. Son lancement est soutenu par une tournée européenne de deux mois.

Après un clip vidéo illustrant le morceau Fade Out mis en ligne sur YouTube en octobre 2016, le groupe se sépare. Les pages Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud ne sont plus alimentées et le site internet officiel est supprimé. Mike Evans poursuit une carrière solo sous le pseudonyme Jaeva, et prépare un album prévu pour 2018.

 Style musical
Les membres du groupe affirment sans ambages leur volonté de faire de la pop :  Pourtant, ils cherchent frénétiquement à ne pas tomber dans du déjà-vu. Ils veulent faire danser, comme les Franz Ferdinand font danser, mais ils veulent produire du nouveau. Ils se sont donc fixés deux règles essentielles : ne pas utiliser de filtres en studio pour leurs voix, et ne pas tirer des idées d'une autre chanson.

Ainsi, un morceau sombre comme le tube True Romance montre que le groupe n'a pas seulement la volonté de faire danser dans les clubs du monde entier, il se donne également comme objectif une recherche musicale, une recherche de nouveauté, dans une pop très codifiée, qui laisse pourtant peu de place aux innovations. Leur objectif est donc ambitieux, mais, d'après une partie de la presse française, il serait en passe d'être atteint.

 Discographie
 Albums studio
 2012 : Here We Are 2015 : European Soul Singles
 2012 : True Romance 2012 : Reptile''

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Citizens! sur le site du magazine Kitsuné
 Citizens! interprète Reptile en session acoustique pour le journal Le Point

Groupe anglais de rock indépendant
Groupe anglais de rock alternatif
Groupe musical britannique des années 2010
Groupe musical formé en 2010
Groupe musical séparé en 2016
Artiste de Kitsuné


Managing Equity in a business covers many areas from Capital Raising, Drawings, to Shareholder dividends, distributions and more.
Set the contact to be the person drawing the funds. Add an appropriate comment. e.g. personal expense, drawings etc.
Credit Asset: Bank Account XYZ or e.g. Liability: Credit Card ABC.
Set up an Account called Equity: Issued Capital or similar.
Enter a sales transaction for $1 using the contact as the shareholder – The account you select will be Equity: Issued Capital.
Apply a payment (if you receive one) or email the unpaid sale with any supporting documents for the issue of the share.
When payment is received, apply it to the transaction using the pay option.
Repeat this process for any other shares issued.
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Given that there are several forms of equity and dividends can be handled in different ways, it is important to consult your advisor.


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The Quick & The Dirty: Marquette 75, Jacksonville 56
The Golden Eagles fail to score 88 points against the Dolphins for the first time in program history
By Brewtown Andy@brewtownandy Dec 4, 2019, 11:54pm CST
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Whacky new gray uniforms that no one asked for? Check!
No Markus Howard thanks to concussion protocol and evaluation? Check!
Marquette jumping out to a double digit lead on Jacksonville in the first six minutes and essentially never having to worry about them the rest of the way? Check!
That's the story of how things went at Fiserv Forum on Wednesday night, as Marquette moved to 6-2 on the year thanks to a 75-56 victory over Jacksonville. The only people who are disappointed with how this went are gamblers who were locked in on the Golden Eagles at -21 before Howard's concussion was announced and apparently head coach Steve Wojciechowski who called the second half "atrocious" in his post game radio hit with Steve "The Homer" True and Tony Smith.
I mean, sure? I guess?
Yeah, Marquette went into halftime up 23 and ended up winning by 19. That's not "great," but I'm also not going to lose any sleep over it. Marquette also never led by fewer than 17 in the second half, so it's not like this thing was really in doubt all that much. The worst thing that I could say about it is that it happened. With MU hovering between 17 and 23 points for the entire final 20 minutes, I can't say that the game was particularly interesting or fun to watch. MU got on the freeway, got up to 65 miles per hour, locked in the cruise control, and let that carry them the rest of the way for the win.
Cool, whatever, fine by me.
I will say that if Wojciechowski's complaint is largely about how the Golden Eagles put themselves in foul trouble in the second half, I can't argue with him. Symir Torrence picked up his fourth foul with just a bit less than 16 minutes to go, and Koby McEwen got there less than a minute later and he would eventually foul out with under six minutes left to go. With Markus Howard in street clothes on the bench (possibly a good sign for his concussion), having two of your primary options to replace him as a ballhandler trapped up with fouls for most of the second half is not good, to say the least.
Still, even with Sacar Anim and Greg Elliott having to hold down the point guard fort for long stretches of the second half, it didn't seem to affect MU's ability to maintain their margin on the Dolphins. Then again, Marquette did commit eight turnovers in the second half after just five in the first 20 minutes. The game long number on their turnover rate might be fine, but the final 20 minutes were not good and the giveaways presumably had a big part in the Dolphins outscoring MU 33-29 in that timeframe.
I don't know if there's much else to say about this one. Sacar Anim led all scorers with 19 points, while Theo John added 11 and seven rebounds in his 17 minutes of action. Jamal Cain was a force of nature, grabbing up a career high 12 rebounds and just missing a double-double with eight points.
Up Next: On Saturday night, Marquette will find themselves visiting The Little Apple for a road trip against Kansas State. As of the postgame press conference, Wojciechowski is unsure whether or not Markus Howard will be available for that one. The Wildcats are 5-2 this season with neutral site losses in their Feast Week even to Pittsburgh and Bradley, but they followed that up with a win over Florida A&M. It will be MU's last crack at a Major Seven opponent until Big East play starts on New Year's Day.
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Iodopleura fusca — вид воробьиных птиц из семейства титировых (ранее помещался в семейство котинговых). Вид близок к Iodopleura isabellae, возможно они даже конспецифичны.

Распространение
Большая часть ареала расположена в регионе Гвиана, но птицы встречаются также в юго-восточной части Венесуэлы и (очень локально) на северо-востоке Бразилии.

Описание
Длина тела 11 см. Вес одного самца составил 15,3 г. Крылья относительно длинные. Хвост короткий, клюв широкий.

Биология
Питаются насекомыми, а также фруктами.

Охранный статус
МСОП присвоил виду охранный статус LC.

Примечания

Ссылки
 https://www.hbw.com/species/dusky-purpletuft-iodopleura-fusca

Титировые


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Q: Regarding iCarousel and labels iOS I have 2 labels.
First label, named "label" is placed inside every view within the carousel. The string/text of the label is the view's index.
label.text = [[items1 objectAtIndex:index] stringValue];

I also have a second label (outside the carousel) named "outsideLabel".
I want the outsideLabel's string/text to be the view's index aswell (always the view being in front of the carousel).
outsideLabel.text = [[items1 objectAtIndex:index] stringValue];

Somehow I am doing it wrong and wonder how I shall code this in order to show the proper number in outsideLabel's string/text (always the view being in front). The code somewhat shows the correct numbers but get messed up when scrolling backwards in the carousel. The carouseltype is timeMachine.
My current code:
- (UIView *)carousel:(iCarousel *)carousel viewForItemAtIndex:(NSInteger)index reusingView:(UIView *)view
{
    //create new view if no view is available for recycling
    if (view == nil)
    {
        view = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 200.0f, 200.0f)];

        view.contentMode = UIViewContentModeCenter;
        label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:view.bounds];
        label.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
        label.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

        if (carousel == carousel1)
        {

        CGRect test = CGRectMake(10, 10, 20, 20);
        self.label.frame = test;

         }
        else {
            CGRect test = CGRectMake(50, 40, 40, 40);
            self.label.frame = test;

            }
        [view addSubview:label];

    }
    else
    {
        label = [[view subviews] lastObject];
    }

    if (carousel == carousel1)
    {
        //items in this array are numbers
        outsideLabel.text = [[items1 objectAtIndex:index] stringValue];

        label.text = [[items1 objectAtIndex:index] stringValue];

         ((UIImageView *)view).image = [UIImage imageNamed:[view1background objectAtIndex:index]];

    }
    else
    {

       //not relevant....
    }

    return view;
}

A: From the code you've provided, it looks like you're not initializing the outsideLabel in the right place. To be safe, you should initialize all your subviews inside the block where you are checking if the view is nil. Another safe convention is to assign tags to all your subviews, so that you can later retrieve them from views that are reused, as in the code below. For easy reference, and to avoid errors, I define constants for these tags at the top of my implementation file, like this:
#define INSIDE_LABEL_TAG  1
#define OUTSIDE_LABEL_TAG 2

This is much safer, since it doesn't depend on the structure of the views, as is the case with your code, where you get the last view:
label = [[view subviews] lastObject];

Try initializing outsideLabel inside that block, and use tags. The pattern used in initialization is identical to that used for the subviews of UITableView cells in a UITableViewDataSource delegate:
(UITableViewCell * _Nonnull)tableView:(UITableView * _Nonnull)tableView
                cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath * _Nonnull)indexPath

Here is some pseudo code that shows where I would use tags and initialize the outsideLabel:
- (UIView *)carousel:(iCarousel *)carousel viewForItemAtIndex:(NSInteger)index reusingView:(UIView *)view
{
    //create new view if no view is available for recycling
    if (view == nil)
    {
        //Configure the view
        ...

        /*  Initialize views for all carousels  */

        //Initialize the insideLabel and set its tag
        ...
        insideLabel.tag = INSIDE_LABEL_TAG;

        //Initialize the outsideLabel and set its tag
        ...
        outsideLabel.tag = OUTSIDE_LABEL_TAG;

        if (carousel == carousel1)
        {
            //Do any carousel-specific configurations
        }

        //Add all subviews initialized in this block
        [view addSubview:label];
        [view addSubview:outsideLabel];
    }
    else
    {
        //Get the subviews from an existing view
        insideLabel = (UILabel *)[view viewWithTag:INSIDE_LABEL_TAG];
        outsideLabel = (UILabel *)[view viewWithTag:OUTSIDE_LABEL_TAG];
    }

    if (carousel == carousel1)
    {
        //Set the values for each subview
    } else {
       //Other carousels...
    }

    return view;
}

A: It looks to me like you want the "time machine" style carousel. I don't see your code setting the carousel type anywhere. Don't you need to set the carousel type?


On February 3 1920, there was great excitement in the town when a battlefield survivor from the First World War arrived in Hinckley. It was not a returning veteran welcomed back into the bosom of his family but a First World War tank.
The tank was a gift to the people of Hinckley from the National War Savings Committee based in the Treasury, in recognition of the generous efforts of the people of the town in supporting the war savings campaign to the tune of £750,000 war bonds and war savings certificates.
Hinckley was fortunate for there were 263 "war battered" tanks given to other various towns and cities across the country. It is now a sad fact that only one of these tanks has survived to this day – in Ashford in Kent.
What was the story of the Hinckley tank?
The origins lie in the need for the government, during the First World War, to reduce borrowing and raise funds for the war effort. Consequently, the National Savings movement was established in 1916 to encourage the British people to "save and prosper". It became a familiar part of life on the home front.
The movement was organised into local committees headed by local worthies. The Hinckley War Savings committee was headed by Mr George Kinton JP as Chairman and Mr George Coxhead, the headmaster of the Grammar School, as Secretary.
Savings products were sold to the public and the funds went to the Treasury. There were savings stamps, certificates and bonds.
They could be purchased in any of the town's post offices or building societies. Very quickly savings groups were established in local factories, shops, clubs and an appointed collector did the rounds each week to collect the savings and issue certificates. The pupils at the Grammar School quickly took to the scheme, no doubt fired on by the Headmaster.
The school contribution was around £6 per head each week. This last statistic was extremely important for in the Spring Term 1919 issue of the school magazine it was announced that because the average savings per head had remained at £5 and over, the school was to be presented with a captured German rifle.
There were 242 members of the association.
One of the nationally inspired fundraising efforts had been to send tanks out as "tank banks" to towns and cities to help bolster the national savings campaign.
The tanks held enormous curiosity value for the general public and were one of the innovations of the war. The appearance of the tank in the Battle of Cambrai had fired the imagination and those that flocked to see the tanks were enthralled with this new "wonder weapon".
The connection with the national war savings campaign led to the idea, after the war, that tanks could be presented to towns, like Hinckley, that had "done their bit". So that is how the town became the recipient of a piece of "army surplus".
The tank came from France, via Ramsgate and travelled to Hinckley on the back of a railway wagon, in the custody of members of the Tank Corps.
It arrived at the railway station and trundled its way through the town to the gas works on Brick Kiln Street, to await the official presentation to the town. Along with the tank a field gun was also presented to the town.
This unique way of disposing of army surplus was also to involve Earl Shilton. George Foster, the first historian of the village in his History of Earl Shilton, wrote: "A captured field gun stood for a time near to the Wesleyan chapel and was later moved to a field off Station Road near to the "Lodge".
"Its final resting place was in the Wood Street recreation ground, which was once a large sand pit and where it now lies buried and forgotten".
Presumably a high powered metal detector could still locate what would now be a priceless relic of the First World War.
Whilst the Hinckley Tank was waiting its final resting place, a plaque was attached to the shell of the vehicle. It was thought for many years that this plaque had been lost.
However, part of it has survived and was donated to Hinckley and District Museum in 1998 by the council. On February 3 1920 the official presentation of the tank to the town took place on Granville Gardens, where the tank was to permanently reside. On its short journey to the park the tank was put through its paces by making its way over a pile of logs.
The presentation party consisted of a Lieutenant A L Roberts of Loughborough who had served with the 1/5th Battalion Leicestershire in which many local men had a served and which for a time Colonel Griffiths, of Sketchley Dyeworks, was the commanding officer. Mr Kinton accepted the tank on behalf of the local war savings committee and Mr Cholerton spoke on behalf of the Urban District Council representing the local people.
There was a large crowd of people whose ranks were augmented by boys from the Grammar School and St Mary's School who had been given the day off especially for the occasion.
A concrete plinth and platform had had to be laid in order to accept the heavy tank and in the days after the presentation the tank was immobilised and the working parts removed. The twist in the tale of course is that during the Second World War, when metal was scarce, items like the presentation tanks were taken and scrapped for recycling.
The plaque that had adorned the tank survived the first cut of the guillotine as it seems to have been saved and remounted on a special wooden plinth. The exact story is not known but presumably it was in the council's care until permanent transfer to the museum. It is the only part of the venerable veteran of the battlefields, that once had pride of place in the town, to survive.
It will have a new lease of life as it forms an integral part of a major new exhibition entitled Somewhere in No-Man's Land which runs from Easter Monday 2014 until the end of October 2014 at Hinckley and District Museum.