Blessings and Virtues – Limited.
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Bless•ing |
something promoting or contributing to happiness, well-being or prosperity. |
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Vir•tue |
moral excellence and righteousness; goodness. A particularly good or beneficial quality. Effective force or power. Manly courage; valor. (theology) – one of the orders of angels. |
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Lim•it•ed |
refers principally to establishing a maximum, as in quantity, degree, space or time, beyond which a person or thing cannot or may not go. |
Our blessings and virtues are controlled and limited by our thoughts. If we want to increase our blessings and virtues, we must change the way we think…..
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he;” Proverbs 23:7
“Mind is the Master power that molds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: —
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.
James Allen (“As a Man Thinketh”)
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affections for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in it beauty.” Albert Einstein
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.” Philippians 4:8