Learn to take advice. There are only two kinds of advice. The kind you need and the kind you don't need.

Can't we, when we are working and drop something, instead of getting mad about it, say thank you God for giving me the strength to pick this up. - Rev Earl H. Merritt

Finish each day and be done with it...You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenly. - Emerson

Justifying a fault doubles it. - French Proverb

Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all. - Morris Mandel

If it wasn't for the optimist, the pessimist would never know how happy he wasn't. - Anonymous

Life is an attitude. Live today as if it is the last day of your life.

All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmond Burke

You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, yet when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people. - Archibald Rutledge

I do not ask to walk smooth paths,
Nor bear an easy load.
I pray for strength and fortitude,
To climb the rock-strewn road.
Give me such courage I can scale
The hardest peaks alone.
And transform every stumbling block,
Into a Stepping Stone.
Gail Brook Burket

A Pessimist is someone who, when he sees the light at the end of the tunnel, thinks that it's a train comming to run him over.

WHAT DISTURBED YOU MOST IN 2005?
What disturbed you the most? A lost soul in Hell, or a scratch on that car. Your missing the worship service or missing a days work. The church not growing very fast or the garden not growing. Your Bible unopened, or a newspaper unread. The contributions decreasing or your income decreasing. Your children late to Bible study or late to public school. Your church work neglected or your housework neglected. To miss Bible class or to miss your favorite TV program. Low attendance at worship or low attendance at a party. Now how about 2006?

Be not angry that you can not make others as you wish them to be, since you can not make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas A. Kempis

How much discouragement can you take for God. What would it take for you to quit your service to the Lord. - Dr. Clyde Billingsly

Think about God as an invisible person walking by your side at all times. - Rev. Anis Shorrosh

If ALL of your physical possessions were taken from you today, what would you have left? What your are greatly depends on what you have left. - Hugh Troyer

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change...Courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference. - Kristone

A Christian without a church home is like a fish out of water

Going to church won't make you a Christian any more that going to a garage will make you a mechanic.

Some people go to church because they think they are better than others and some go because they think that they are worse than others. Why do you go to church?

Our lives are like great power lines. No matter how taught they are stretched, if there is not a standard to lift them up at intervals, those power lines will finally lie in the dust of the ground. - Rev. W. A. Criswell

HOW TO KILL YOUR CHURCH

1. Don't come.
2. If you do come, come late.
3. When you come, come with a grouch.
4. At every service ask yourself,"What do I get out of this?"
5. Visit other churches about half of the time to show your pastor that you are not tied down to him. There is nothing like independence.
6. Let the Pastor earn his money; let him do all the work.
7. Sit pretty well back and never sing. If you have to sing, sing out of tune and behind everybody else.
8. Never pay in advance, especially for religion. Wait until you get your money's worth, and then wait a bit longer.
9. Never encourage the preacher; if you like a sermon, keep mum about it. Many a preacher has been ruined by flattery. Don't let his blood be on your head.
10. It is good to tell your preacher's failings to any stranger that may happen in; they might be a long time finding them out.
11. Of course, you can't be expected to get new members for the church with such a Pastor as he is.
12. If there happens to be a few zealous workers in the church, make a tremendous protest against the church's being run by a clique.
13. If your church unfortunately happens to be harmonious, call it apathy or indefference or lack of zeal, or anything under the sun except what it is.

Joining the church will not save but the saved will join the church. - Rev. Rick Scarbough

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and suceeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When you hear about someone who has failed, you are also hearing about someone who has tried. You can never fail unless you try. There is no disgrace in failing. There is only disgrace in never having tried. - Judy Zerafa

To give up is the worse disgrace, even though to lose is sometimes inevitable.

Unless you begin something, no matter what it is, you will never complete it.

You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. - Anatole France

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. - Charles P. Steinmetz

An educated man is not one who knows all of the answers, but one who has learned how to ask the right questions to find the right answers.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

The more education a man has, the more assurance he has that he does not have the answers.

He that teaches himself hath a fool for a master. - Benjamin Franklin

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Edgar Watson Howe

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue more frequently of her experience. - Ninon de Lenclos

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that was in it--and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again, and that is well, but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Often when you reach the grass you thought was greener on the other side, you find not only is it not any greener but often it's not even eatable.

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before. - Africn Proverb

It often happens that worthless people are merely people who are worth knowing. - Benjamin Disraeli

A true friend is a friend forever

Promises may gain friends, but it is performance that keeps them. - Daily Bread

I didn't find my friends; the good God gave them to me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few delights can equal the mere prence of one whom we trust utterly - George MacDonald

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. - Joseph Fort Newton

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson

If you think God makes mistakes, you are mistaken!

Safty is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of God.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the juman mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. - George Santayana

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that, we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, are we able to go on a nice vacation, or when we retire. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Your life will always be filled with challenges.
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. - Francios de LaRochefoucauld

It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with...and remember that time waits for no one.
So, stop waiting....
--until your car or home is paid off
--until you get a new car or home
--until your kids leave the house
--until you go back to school
--until you finish school
--until you lose 10 lb.
--until you gain 10 lb.
--until you get married
--until you get a divorce
--until you have kids
--until you retire
--until summer
--until spring
--until winter
--until fall
--until you die
There is no better time than right now to be happy. Happiness is a Journey, not a destination. So -- work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching.

The happiness of a person is directly linked to the most important thing in his life.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. - Dale Carnegie

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincon

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. - A.C. Benson

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - James Matthew Barrie

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day. - From the Sanskrit

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. - David Starr Jordan

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. - Montesquiev

I accept life unconditionally. Life holds so much-
So much to be so happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set conditions. - Artur Rubinstein

Our childern are the only earthly possessions we can take with us to Heaven. - Daily Bread

Many people who plan to repent at the 11th hour die at 10:30.

It would be far better to go to Hell from the Jungles of the Ammazon where they never had a missionary than from the front seat of a Bible believing church. - Pastor Harold Ramsey

A Naval chaplin who didn't believe in Hell was asked to resign. When he asked why the Christians told him there were two reasons. If there is a Hell, we don't want you lying to us, second if there is no Hell, we don't need you.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. - Don Herold

The struggling for knowledge hath a pleasure in it like that of wrestling with a fine woman. - George Savile, Marguis of Halifax

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. - Reme de Gourmont

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. - Thomas Fuller

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. - Elton Trueblood

If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vunerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high. - Rev. Chuck Swindoll

Man begins by making love and ends by loving a woman; woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love. - Reme de Gourmont

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. - Julius Gordon

We like someone because. We love someone although. - Henri De Montherlant

Love is not something you say, it's something you do. - Mike Evans

We need to Love our family for who they are and not for what they do. - Karen McDuffy

Almost carries no weight, espically in matters of the heart. - The ghost of Christmas past (A Christmas Carol)

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. - Dr. Samual Johnson

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the best. - Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard

Mens wives are usally their husbands mental inferiors and spiritual superiors; this gives them double instruments of torture. - Don Herold

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. - Ian Hay

God is the only third party in a marriage that can make it happy.

There is one advantage in a plurality of wives; they fight each other instead of their husbands. - Josh Billings

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come evil wives. - Charles Lamb

Perhaps determination not to give up trusts many marriages through to survival. Determination could be just another name for stubbornness or for dependence. I think it could also be another name for commitment, even for love. It surely is acknowledgement that "for better or worse" includes worse, something the old marriage has learned it must abide. Without that worse, the marriage, like the phrase, is incomplete. I suspect it is also considerably less interesting. - Joyce Colony

A woman must choose: with a man liked by women, she is not sure; with a man disliked by women, she is not happy. - Anatole France

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trustes element in another persons life. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

A wedding is an event, but a marriage is an achievement. - In Tune with Father(Soumi College)

So you say you can't take it, the price is too high. The feelings are gone it seems the rivers run dry. You never imagined it could turn out so rough. You give and give and give and still it's never enough. Your emotions have vanished that once held a thrill, you wonder if love could be alive in you still. But that ring on your finger was put there to stay, you'll never forget the words you promised that day. Jesus didn't die for you because it was fun, He hung there for love because it had to be done, and inspite of the anguish his word was fulfilled, cause love is not a feeling it's an act of your will. - Don Francisco

Success in marriage is much more than a matter of finding the right person; it is also a matter of being the right person. - Leland Foster Wood

One good husband is worth two good wives; for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued. - Benjamin Franklin

What hurts you is not the fight, its what you say after the fight.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiam among the men, the greatest asset I posses, and the way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a man as criticisms from his superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a man incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise. - Charles Schwab (One of the first men to ever be paid a salery of one million dollars per year.

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirt of critism. - Charles Schwab

Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire...and the best piece of advice which can be given to would be persuaders, whether in bussiness, in the home, in the school, in politics is first arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way! - Harry A. Overstreet (Influencing Human Behaviour)

If you have enough will power you can make your body do anything, absolutely anything. - Shelby Hayden Clifton

If God shuts one door, He opens another. - Irish Proverb

At night turn all your worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.

We never get big things because we only ask for small things. (Just ask)

God is more interested in the quality of the prayer than the quantity and eloquence of the words.

Prayer is the key to Heaven, but faith unlocks the door.

Sometimes when God wants to punish us, He answers our prayers.

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers;pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. - Phillips Brooks

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen

The pessimist sees the dificulty in every opportunity
The optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty. - L.P.Jacks

The army of Israel looked at Goliath through the eyes of man and said he's too big to beat. David looked at him through the eyes of God and said he's too big to miss. - Rev. Walley Carter

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. One must take it. The only choice is how. - Henry Ward Beecher

A man is as big as the things that annoy him.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. - Duke Ellington

Sometimes God has to take away what we have so that He can give us what He wants us to have.

We are not made rich by what is in our pockets but by what is in our hearts. - Daily Bread

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in Gods hands, that I still possess. - Martin Luther

The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you. - Jean de LaBruyere

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. - Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. - Thomas Carlyle

You can't unsay what you have said but there is one thing yu can do; You can shut up. - Rev. Ford

If you must speak your mind, then mind how you speak.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas A. Kempis

TEN SPIRITUAL TONICS

1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life.
2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul.
3. Controll appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind.
4. Accept your limitations. All of us can't be great (God has different jobs for different people).
5. Don't envy. It wastes time and energy.
6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition.
7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves.
8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your view.
9. Spend some time alone, for the peace of solitude and silence.
10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.
    Abraham L. Feinberg

Thomas Jeffersons Decalogue

1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend our money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you don not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happpened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Just as there is a right way and a wrong way to build a bridge, there is a right way and a wrong way to get to Heaven.

Be a Christian. It's good for your health, now and espically later.

Salvation is free, but you have to pay the price for it. - Rev. Ed Holloway

The Lord will keep you even when you don't want to be kept. - Rev. Ed Holloway

God has a plan for your life but Satan also has a plan for your life. - Rev. Rick Scarborough

I have known many people that do things that they know are wrong. Then when someone that cares about them tries to talk to them about the problem, they get mad about it. Always remember this - When you do something that you know is wrong, you give up the right to get mad. - Hugh Troyer

Whenever sin does not look like sin, the sinner does not look like a sinner.

An idle mind is the Devils workshop.

The secret sin on earth is an open scandle in Heaven. - Chuck Swindol

Basically, the law of the flesh is this:
The more you get, the more you want;
The more you want, the less you enjoy what you already recieved. - Glen Berteau

If you haven't met the devil today, maybe its because your going in the same direction. - Dr. Cllyde Billingsly

Condemnation never comes from God. Conviction comes from Jesus, condemnation comes from Satan. - Rev. Rick Scarborough

Most men who run down women are only running down a certain woman. - Reme do Gourmont

Beauty that don't make a woman vain makes her very beautiful. - Josh Billings

Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Blowing out the other fellows candle won't make yours shine brighter.

Rum is good in its place, and hell is the place for it. - Josh Billings

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. - Don Herold

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much; those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. - Cyrus H. K. Curtis

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin

Success does not necessarily mean that we must earn a great deal of money and live in the biggest house in town. It means only that we are daily engaged in striving toward a goal that we have indepently chosen and feel is worthy of us as persons. A goal,whatever it may be, is what gives meaning to our existance. It is the carrot on the stick that keeps us striving - that gives us a reason for getting out of bed in the morning. - Readers Digest

If you aim at imperfection, there is some chance of your getting it. Whereas if you aim at perfection, there is none. - Samuel Butler

The creation of a thousand forest is in one acorn. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is often just an idea away. - Frank Tyger (Forbes Magazine)

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Wlii Rogers

Three Ruled for Success
1. Set a goal.
2. Go out there and aquire the knowledge.
3. Go out there and do it. - Tom Vu

Don't let anyone talk you out of the dream you want. Whatever you do in life, ignore the looser, make success happen because you deserve it. Hang around winners, talk to them, learn how they do it, immitate them. If you listen to someone, listen to someone who has done it before. - Tom Vu

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets. - American Proverb

If there is any one secret of success it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own. - Henry Ford

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him. - Owen D. Young

A man rarely succeeds at anything unless he has fun doing it.

If we ain't got dreams, what have we got. - Danny Amatule (Fame)

Success consists of getting up one more time than you fall down.

The seeming tragedies of life are often triumphs for the gospel. - Pastor Bob Taylor

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.

Efficiency - The right man in the right place at the right time doing the right thing in the right way.

Most Christians have more equipment and tools than Gideons 300 men but we wont go into battle. - Dr. Clyde Billingsly

Your goals must always be beyond your ability but within your faith. - Rev. Moody Adams

No matter who you are, you are the best Christian that somebody knows.

Some Christians are stumbling blocks to the world when they should be stepping stones.

If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

The only thing that the average Christian wants out of Christ is an escape ticket from Hell.

Make sure that when you leave a person, he is closer to Jesus than when you first met him.

A hypocrite is a fellow who isn't himself on Sunday.

Americans are famous for feasting and pain, not fasting and prayer. - Rev Anis Shorrosh

His mind is open; yes, it is so open that nothing is retained; Ideas simply pass through him. - Francis Herbert Bradley

Just one evil thought, what harm can it do? But give it free reighn, and soon there are two. And then sinful deeds and habits ensue; So guard all your thoughts, or they'll destroy you. - Dennis J. DeHaan

You will never be higher or better than your best thoughts. - Jack Lannom

You are what you think you are, attitudes determine actions. You look at a person and how they behave, I can tell you how they think. You see a man going in to a pornography shop and I can tell you pretty much what's going on in his mind. Ask a man if you can see his library and you can tell him what he thinks, by looking at his library. Watching what a man does you can tell pretty much what he thinks because the culmazation, the crystalization, the selitification in thoughts is your behaviour. - Jack Lannom

Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

TAKE TIME
To Think. It is the source of power.
To Play. It is the secret of perpetual youth.
To Read. It is the fountain of wisdom.
To Pray. It is the greatest power on earth.
To Love and Be Loved. It is a God-given privilege.
To be Friendly. It is the road to happiness.

Lessons of an oyster
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations get into his shell. He does not like them. But when he can not get rid of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do.
If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one perscription: make a peral. It may have to be a peral of patience, but, anyhow, make a peral. And it takes faith and love to do it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

God can turn winds of adversity into showers of blessings.

There is no pit so deep that God is not deeper still. - Corrie Ten Boom

It's not how many times that life knocks you down, it's how many times you pick yourself up. - Remington Steele

Remember the devil can wall you round, but he can not roof you in. - Hudson Taylor to Dan Crawford

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sail.

Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. - Phillips Brooks

If you set a limit, the devil is going to push you to it. - Dr. Clyde Billingsly

When you are pressed, are you pressed closer to God? - Rev. Rick Scarough

Evangelism is just one begger telling another begger where to get bread.

All that stands between a sinner and a Christian is Christ and all that stands between a sinner and Hell is death. - Rev. Frank Thompson

I go fishing up in Main every Summer. Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream; but I find for some strange reason fish prefer worms. So when I go fishing, I don't think about what I want. I think about what they want. I don't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangle a worm or a grasshopper in front of the fish and say:"Wouldn't you like to have that?"Why not use the same common sense when fishing for men? - Dale Carnigie

When you preach in a saloon you have to learn to time your ending right before the sherrif arrives. - Rev Moody Adams

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get. - Holbrook Jackson

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost

Look for more Trouble
Be thankful for the troubles of your job. They provide about half of your income. Because if it were not for the things that go wrong, the difficult people you have to deal with, and the problems and unpleasantness of our working day, someone could be found to handle your job for half of what you are being paid.
It takes intelligence, resourcefulness, patience, tact and courage to meet the troubles of any job. That is why you hold your present job. And it may be the reason you aren't holding down an even bigger one.
If all of us would start to look for more troubles, and learn to handle them cheerfully and with good judgements, as opportunities rather than irritations, we would find ourselves getting ahead at a suprising rate. For it is a fact that there are plenty of big jobs waiting for men and women who aren't afraid of the troubles connected with them. - Robert R. Updegraff

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with ones sympathy the gloom of somebody else. - Arnold Bennett

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength. - A.J.Cronin