Although I've never used the phrase, "Don't come cryin' to me . . . ," in the right movie and the right scene, there's nothing better—and it fits well here:
(No, I don't—but I'm thinking about it.)
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You must maintain continual watchfulness so that nothing arises in your life that would cause you shame. . . . If you act deceitfully, God's blight and ruin will be upon you. What may be craftiness for you, may not be for others—God has called you to a higher standard. Never dull your sense of being your utmost for His highest—your best for His glory. . . . The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted.
“An agriculture that is whole nourishes the whole person, body and soul. We do not live by bread alone.” Wendell Berry (in the Preface to the new edition of Masanobu Fukuoka’s The One-Straw Revolution)