In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
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We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God
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Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.
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1 Peter 4:10:
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.
(NIV)
As each of you has received a gift (a particular spiritual talent, a gracious divine endowment), employ it for one another as [befits] good trustees of God's many-sided grace [faithful stewards of the extremely diverse powers and gifts granted to Christians by unmerited favor].
(AMP)
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
(KJV)
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I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is no study m...
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... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.
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You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.
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