Insights from Jordon, William George, The Majesty of Calmness.
• The man who is calm does not selfishly isolate himself from the world, for he is intensely interested in all that concerns the welfare of humanity. His calmness is but a Holy of Holies into which he can retire from the world to get strength to live in the world. He realizes that the full glory of individuality, the crowning of self-control, is the majesty of calmness. (p.12).
• Hurry has ruined more Americans than has any other word in the vocabulary of life. It is the scourge of America and is both a cause and a result of our high pressure civilization. (p.14).
• The man who is not self-reliant is weak, hesitating and doubting in all he does, He fears to take a decisive step because he dreads failure, because he is waiting for someone to advise him or because he dares not act in accordance with his own best judgment. (p.28).
• Failure is one of God’s educators. It is experience leading man to higher things; it is the revelation of a way, a path hitherto unknown to us. (p.39).
• No rule for higher living will help a man in the slighter until he reaches out and appropriates it for himself until he makes it practical in his daily life until that seed of theory in his mind blossoms into a thousand flowers of thought and word and act. (p.46)
Out of Egypt 