- You are your biggest enemy because you make your worst choices.
- You are your biggest enemy because you choose to focus on the world rather than on God.
- You are your biggest enemy because you do not use your time to improve your knowledge and skills.
- You are your biggest enemy because you do not choose associates, friends, guides, and mentors to uplift you but often those who degrade your life.
- You are your biggest enemy because you do not stop your self-defeating habits, such as laziness and spacing or zoning out in front of the Internet or TV.
3D: Daily Dose of Discernment
© 2026 by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. Daily quotations cover topics crucial to your emotional and behavioral health, including emotional and psychological skills, psychotherapy, and more. These quotations serve as a preview for the annual publication of 365 quotations from one year; for example, 3D: Daily Dose of Discerment: 2025 was first previewed here. Visit https://kevinfitzmaurice.com or Amazon and Google Play for Kevin's 76 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Monday, September 7, 2026
Stop Being Your Enemy: 09-07-2026
Sunday, September 6, 2026
Flesh Wants Wrong: 09-06-2026
- You want to be an object of glory, not glorify the One.
- You want to be the source of the signal, not the receiver.
- You want to be given credit, not to give all credit to God.
- You want to become the good, not surrender all to the good.
- You want to appear as the good, not sacrifice all to the good.
Saturday, September 5, 2026
Focus on Your Internal Life: 09-05-2026
- Spend more time arranging your internal life than your external life.
- Spend more time improving your internal life than your external life.
- Spend more time developing your internal life than your external life.
- Your internal life is where you exist, not in your external life.
- Your internal life is what will get you into Heaven or Hell, not your external life.
Friday, September 4, 2026
Forgive Acting Out: 09-04-2026
- When others act out our shared evil nature, you must forgive them to be forgiven because they are you.
- When others act out our shared evil nature, if you see yourself as better than them, you are in a worse state than them.
- When others act out our shared evil nature, remember when you did the same and ask God to forever keep you from yourself as flesh.
- When others act out our shared evil nature, use it as a reminder that as flesh, you also want to serve death, darkness, and destruction.
- When others act out our shared evil nature, thank God that He sent His Son to become one of us so that He could transform us and make a place for us in Heaven to serve Him.
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Be Broken: 09-03-2026
- You must be broken because you are now your ego, and it will keep you from God.
- Often, you must lose everything before you are willing to surrender all control to God.
- You must be crushed because you are self-constructions, and they will not allow God to be over themselves.
- Sometimes, only complete failure will create an opening for a person to learn that God must be in total control.
- You must hit bottom because you are relying on thinking rather than spirit, and there is a chance that, when you hit bottom, you will realize the utter failure of your ways.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
What Is Faith?: 09-02-2026
- Faith is a reminder to trust in God.
- Faith is relying on God’s consistency.
- Faith is trusting in the energy that is God.
- Faith is not visible because God is not visible.
- Faith is the experience of God working in the past.
- Faith is not knowledge because God is not knowledge.
- Faith is receiving the gift of knowing that God is good and the source of all good.
- Faith is not based in thoughts or words because God is not based in thoughts or words.
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Whiners Are Never Winners: 09-01-2026
- No one ever changed the weather by whining.
- Whiners want you to be as miserable as they are.
- Whiners hate acceptance and dealing with life as it is.
- No one became a winner by whining about practicing and extra work.
- Whiners are the losers in life, attempting to spoil everything for everyone because they refuse to go with the flow.
- Everything is too fast, too slow, too boring, too dramatic, too late, too early, too loud, too soft, and not good enough for the whiner so that they can have pride in knowing better than everyone and everything.
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