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Victor Frankl, The Jewish Psychologist Who ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007 (message contributor)
"Victor Frankl, the Jewish psychologist who spent time in a Nazi concentration camp in Germany wrote, "They stripped me naked. They took everything -- my wedding ring, watch. I stood there naked and all of a sudden realized at that moment that although they could take everything away from me -- my wife, my family, my possessions -- they could not take away my freedom to choose how I was going to respond."
(1) The virtue of self-control, www.sermoncentral.com
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