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the head experience of life in the results it produces the eighties markedly from person to person we say about some people that they never seem to learn from experience they ought to profit by it instead they back away from it all make little attempt to understand and apply it that is a tiny creature found in poems called upon to me soon about a museum has no specialized since organs because it's obsessed by avoiding reactions it finds its way simply by keeping out of trouble if it butts into an obstacle it backs up and changes direction that our people who behaved in similar fashion experience will not prove valuable or you'd wisdom and insight unless it is potent the positive and constructive use
we are not only to draw on it we want to expand and deepen it ours will pit bull complained to panama that experience comes at the wrong end of life when we cannot make use of that shirley and negative attitude to adopt from the earliest years experiences being acquired and can be turned to advantage through every decade of existence we should be growing in heart and mind each new year should head race and its tomorrow coke up in new england that it must and appointed a quite young teacher chairman of the department he was given the position quote two of his colleagues were senior to him both in years and seventies when one of them protested the headmaster replied in reality you haven't had twenty years'
experience you have had one years experience twenty times over the man had not been growing an employer put it this way i don't want a manager with broad experience beauty and i want a manager whose broad experience has developed his judgment for development of that kind that must be no backing away from difficulty when we run into obstacles that must be no shifting of direction to ensure tennessee's and smooth sailing difficulties faced our difficulties already on the way to being conquered facing them is how we build up more muscles a man once told me that the loss of a position had taught him more than almost any other single experience
he had soared himself security establishment instead a wife and two children dependent on him he had to buckle down and make a completely fresh start it was like beginning again it's not on the bottom rungs of the ladder certainly a very long way from the top in retrospect he felt that the loss of his job had been one of the most beneficial things that could possibly have happened to and likewise a minister passing through a terribly trying experience surprised a brother minister by telling him for safety as i have visited people in the kinds of suffering and i have wondered why i was exempt i had never been called to bear any physical or mental pain and i knew i did not deserve such immunity my present
experience has taught me more not a law library of books use even caught thus far i have been say experience can be an invaluable asset that is indeed no substitute for it but everything depends on the use made of it it can be turned into profitable account or it can be mismanaged so badly mismanaged but what might have been a plus becomes a minus for however as the king james version ran doesn't say is a great deal more than this expedience work as pope not all would agree with the apostle some bitter things have been said about experience it has bred cynicism in great numbers of people one source was no cynic but many of us as
familiar with the poem in which she describes the glory of lice morning feeding into the dog any of the ordinary day nor can we deny but what year old is often too true young man dreaming dreams but what becomes of their dreams in middle age how many old man see visions in the world today two global wars behind us the united nations in jeopardy is expedience working hold when i was in glasgow this non preacher in the city was george morris one sunday he preached on expedience workers hope and at the end of the service a woman was waiting to speak to him that takes she said maybe in the bible but it isn't true but i have had so experience of life and the little hold i ever had is gone my sons
replied to that goes to the heart of the matter it is not expedience of life that workers hope it is expedience of christ no porn and just that he said the main without christ well without god and without hope in the world of christianity made a cop no virtue of hope the old greeks and romans never did they held that it was a most an illusion which young men to enjoy life but that in the last resort it was a widow or the wisp the same mode of pessimism is prevalent today understandably so can anyone without christ live in the world we know to date and be hopeful how can he preserved his faith in human nature apart from christ pessimism is
inevitable it was so in the world to which he came and it is so sterile expedience you'd in the light of christ this is what inspires hope if we're christians he is the determining factor in our blueprint existence forty toward and wars and is shapes our conception of the universe shapes our conception of our nature and destiny as children of a god who's highest and best name is low for us christ is not a beautiful memory record with nostalgia is a living redemptive presence with us or ways to the end we see not all things put under him but we see him we are saved by home and can trust it far it has begun to fulfill its sales in us we can look beyond the
here and now and find its meaning in god has made known by christ it is not that we are strong and trustworthy but that he is and he never fails us not own experience of life but our experience of christ we're just oh no set free warlord the source of my severance for more restlessness and anxiety diverse the peace and power which flow from the anti bias in or perplexities and the stresses from fear or faithlessness that's so uphill by thy strength and stayed on the wrong because i'd faith or less we may have died in the
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Unknown (Probably a Portion)
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WRVR (Radio station: New York, N.Y.)
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The Riverside Church (New York, New York)
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Producing Organization: WRVR (Radio station: New York, N.Y.)
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Chicago: “Unknown (Probably a Portion),” The Riverside Church , American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed November 1, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-528-000000131c.
MLA: “Unknown (Probably a Portion).” The Riverside Church , American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. November 1, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-528-000000131c>.
APA: Unknown (Probably a Portion). Boston, MA: The Riverside Church , American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-528-000000131c