Showing posts with label Richard Whately. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Whately. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 February 2015

DRIVE IN

"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." - Richard Whately 

Service
Have you ever driven your car, and all of a sudden you start noticing irregular sounds from the engine, and you wonder, "What in the world can that be?" You wonder, because you didn't expect it to do anything else but function optimally. As a result the next thing you consider - if the sound continues - is to place a call across to your mechanic. If your car is very useful to your daily routine, then for most people taking it to their local mechanic regularly for "check-ups" isn't an option, if they don't want to wake up one morning to find it completely non-responsive. It could get to that point if it is unattended to for a long time.

Whoever thought of the invention called, vehicles must have been endowed with so much insight into the need of man, because having a functional car is a NECESSITY, not a LUXURY, and so it has to be serviced regularly so it can continue to serve diligently. Using your car only, with regularly check-ups is inadvertently calling for a dismal disappointment when you least expect it.

Saturday, 17 January 2015

BE SELFLESS

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." - Albert Schweitzer

Selfless
As humans, in trying to solve a problem we leave the important ingredient out of our recipe. Our world would be a better place if WE would only become more selfless - by doing two simple things. Obeying God's rule:

1. 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and, the second is,
2. (Love) 'your neighbour as yourself.'

It was Richard Whately, who said, "A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour's." I saw in a CCTV footage, a very striking video. A guy standing next to his car at a gas station, close to the pump. All of a sudden another

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