“believed that God is always a good God. Facing difficulties, he lost his job. His home was about to be taken and all seemed hopeless. Braxton prayed”
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Jim Stovall
“the desire and hunger for education is the key to real learning.”
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Jim Stovall
“Struggles often serve to release the wisdom, patience, and strength we all possess but too seldom demonstrate.”
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Jim Stovall
“experience, and most of those experiences are painful and costly. If you can learn from someone else’s pain and expense, you are a wise person, indeed. I would encourage you to read this book, cover-to-cover, but also keep it as a reference text using the sections and individual columns as a resource you can revisit as your life journey calls for specific wisdom. It is my hope that this is not a one-time encounter that you and I are having. My hope is, in the coming months and years as you travel toward your own personal”
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Jim Stovall
“OUR LEGACIES Every footprint that we take Makes a change where we have passed. Small things there beneath our heel Are changing where the print was cast. What then could any difference make When ruthless paths our courses take? Beneath our heel some things will bend Without the strength to rise again. Joye Kanelakos”
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Jim Stovall
“gain or profit. The use of short quotations or occasional page copying for personal or group study is permitted and encouraged. Permission will”
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Jim Stovall
“When we can learn from our own problems, we begin to deal with life. When we can learn from other people’s problems, we begin to master life.”
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Jim Stovall
“In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.”
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Jim Stovall
“There is absolutely nothing that can replace money in the things that money does, but regarding the rest of the things in the world, money is absolutely useless.”
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Jim Stovall
“I finally know that joy does not come from avoiding a problem or having someone else deal with it for you. Joy comes from overcoming a problem or simply learning to live with it while being joyful.”
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Jim Stovall
“Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.”
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Jim Stovall
“The only way to truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.”
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Jim Stovall
“It is impossible to experience fear, hate, or defeat when we are laughing.”
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Jim Stovall
“What we all seek is not necessarily success but our own comfort zone.”
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Jim Stovall