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The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on in the Church and the world, is a miserable patriot, and a poor style of Christian. Next to our Bibles and our own hearts, our Lord would have us study our own times.

Evening is the time which the higher classes choose for dancing, card playing, and the like; and consequently never get to bed till late at night. If we love our souls, and would not become worldly, let us mind how we spend our evenings. Tell me how a man spends his evenings, and I can generally tell what his character is.

He that would be safe from the acts of evil, must widely avoid the occasions.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The decisions you make determine the schedule you keep. The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines

remember the decisions you make determine the schedule you keep. The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines how you spend your soul.

While my heart wants to say yes, the reality of my time makes this a no." I've learned the best "no" answers are graciously honest.

Today's choices become tomorrow's circumstances.

do. "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Don't get so locked in to your overwhelming schedule that you haphazardly spend your soul.

And we don't allow their choices to harm us and start drawing our heart into places of compromise, devastation, or deception. Again, we all need grace when we mess up. But we also need the awareness that there is a difference between an occasional slip in behavior and an ongoing pattern of behavior.