"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name."
John 15:16

When Berlin was separated in the Eastern communist part, and the Western democratic Berlin, a group of Easterns overturned a truck with junk in the Western teritory. The Westerns thought to put all the junk back ant to overturn it in the Eastern Berlin. But they concluded it is not the best way to act. Therefore, they prepared a truck with good food, they crossed the borders and they made
an announcement: „Everybody gives what they have to offer!”

You will not be able to offer good things to others if your life is empty.

The one who wins himself is stronger than the one who wins his enemy.
Aristotel