Comments on: Why are winners so miserable?

By: David Murray

David Murray — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:27:34 +0000

Bill, I agree, to get from winner to servant (and stay there) is beyond human power.

By: David Murray

David Murray — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:26:51 +0000

Great quote Mark. I used to live in the same city that Chalmers ministered in.

By: Mark Tuso

Mark Tuso — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:09:05 +0000

I thought of this quote as I was reading your post. “The misery of such a condition is often realized by him who is retired from business, or who is retired from law, or who is even retired from the occupations of the chase, and of the gaming table. Such is the demand of our nature for an object in pursuit, that no accumulation of previous success can extinguish it – and thus it is, that the most prosperous merchant, and the most victorious general, and the most fortunate gamester, when the labour of their respective vocations has come to a close, are often found to languish in the midst of all their acquisitions, as if out of their kindred and rejoicing element. It is quite in vain with such a constitutional appetite for employment in man, to attempt cutting away from him the spring or the principle of one employment, without providing him with another.” Thomas Chalmers – “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection”

By: Daniel Gomes Silveira

Daniel Gomes Silveira — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:45:41 +0000

So true… The world simply doesn’t understand what can truly makes us happy.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:28:11 +0000

2 natures beat within my breast, the one is foul the other is blest, the one I love the other I hate, the I feed will dominateDoesn’t Paul talk about beating himself into submission? Going from always wanting to be a winner to wanting to be a servant takes the grace of God and the power of Christ.