Renato Cardoso's Blog

Renato Cardoso's Blog

• Knocking your brain out
  The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be. – Jeremiah 17.9,10 (MSG) There's a constant war between your heart and your mind; your feelings and your reason; your emotions and your
  
  
• No one was born proud
  The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. — Mignon McLaughlin It’s very hard to help a proud person. His pride won’t let him recognize he needs help, let alone receive it. Is there any hope for such person? Sometimes I wonder. On the other hand, I don't think proud people became proud by choice. I can’t imagine they decided one day, “You know what, I’m going to be proud from
  
  
• Pride goes before destruction...
  ...and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18. Or how The Message puts it: First pride, then the crash. The bigger the ego, the harder the fall. At the very root of all the other sins people commit is pride.  It doesn't let people see their own mistakes It makes them resistant to change It makes them stubborn It gives them an inflated view of themselves It destroys
  
  
• Pastor on vacation
  Then one of the teachers of religious law said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you no matter where you go!” But Jesus said, “Foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests, but I, the Son of Man, have no home of my own, not even a place to lay my head.” Matthew 8.19,20
  
  
• The news
  Most of us know this but we tend to forget: The news doesn't tell you what's going on. It tells you only what the news bureaus want you to know or think is going on. Remember that. Don't let others do the thinking for you.