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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible- Corrie ten Boom

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind not with- Henry Ford

When you have good friends in your life the joys of life are doubled and the sorrows of life are cut in half - Rick Warren

8 times the Bible says “one another”. There are 58 commands in the Bible we cannot obey without relationships- Rick Warren

If the light that is on you is brighter than the light that is in you, the light that is on you will destroy you. – Christine Caine

Kosuke Koyama said it this way: God walks “slowly” because he is love. If he is not love he would have gone much faster. Love has its speed. It is an inner speed. It is a spiritual speed.” There’s a reason people talk about “walking with God,” not “running with God.” It’s because God is love.

I could never myself believe in God if it were not for the cross… in the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? - John Stott

If the truth sets us free, what do lies do? - Robert Morris

Loyalty means, for example, speaking about others as if they were present. We establish trust in those who are present by our loyalty to those who are not present.

In ministry, private purity is the source of public power- Rick Warren

When we run from our problems, we only change our location- Chris Brown

You have to be odd to be number one- Dr. Suess

Wisdom is the ‘art of steering’ through the battles and blessings of life, and living skilfully in whatever conditions you find yourself- Nicky Gumble

Wisdom is choosing to do now what you will be happy with later on- Joyce Meyer

The Holy Spirit doesn’t make you better than anybody else. It makes you better than yourself- Mark Batterson

We don’t need another class, another conference. We need a new anointing. We are already educated way beyond the level of our obedience. We don’t need to know more: we need to do more with what we know- Mark Batterson

it’s hard to overestimate the unimportance of almost everything- John Maxwell

You have to face your fears to begin the process of a unlearning them- Mark Batterson

A domineering Chief of Staff will almost certainly lead to trouble. Overly strong Chiefs have learned the hard way that serving the President means being able to cultivate, rather than alienate, constituencies for his use. – James Pfiffner in “The President’s Chief of Staff: Lessons Learned”

The people who don’t succeed as Chief of Staff are people who like the “chief” part of the job and not the “staff” part of the job. You’ve got to remember that you are still staff, even though you are powerful. — James Baker, Ronald Reagan’s Chief of Staff

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies—Leon Uris

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not- T.S. Eliot

‪Pain is inevitable but misery is optional. We can’t stop what happens to us, but we can certainly stop what happens in us- Andre Olivier‬

God is good and life is tough. You can count your blessings or your problems. What you focus on will determine the condition of your heart- Maury Davis

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable, you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of the things you can’t give up- Andy Law

Transition has to take place internally before it ever manifest externally- Joseph Mattera

We need churches that are small enough to offer the miracle of friendship and close community are a powerful witness to a lost and lonely world- Brian Sanders

Favor doesn’t exempt us from pain, faith doesn’t exempt us from fear. Faith isn’t doing something in the absence of fear but in the presence of fear- Dale Bronner

‪Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for- Bob Marley‬

The process is the journey on the inside that gets us ready so we can manage the destination when we get there

It’s easy to talk a good game about loving your enemies until you have one- Bob Goff

Grace never seems fair until you need some- Bob Goff

If we don’t listen to everything God has to say, we eventually won’t hear anything He has to say. And we probably need to hear most what we want to hear least- Mark Batterson

Relax daily, Rest weekly, Recharge monthly, Retreat yearly

We are not held back by what we don’t have, but by what we don’t use- Bob Goff

God doesn’t give us all the details, because he trusts us- Bob Goff

Loving people the way Jesus did is always great theology- Bob Goff

I’m usually serving people right up until I tell everyone about how I’m serving everybody - Bob Goff

We don’t need to call everything we do ”ministry” anymore just call it Tuesday- Bob Goff

I’m not calling you to recovery but to resurrection- Blaine Bartel. The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face- Mike Tyson

Today’s teens have to much accessibility and not enough accountability - Wriley Webster

What you tolerate now will dominate you later- Ryan Summers

Kids don’t have enough fear of their parents and parents have too much fear of their kids- Ryan Summers

When your work is your identity, success goes to your head and failure goes to your heart- Tim Keller

We have no problem with LGBT persons. God forbid, let them live as they wish. But some things do appear excessive to us. They claim now that children can play five or six gender roles. Let everyone be happy, we have no problem with that. But this must not be allowed to overshadow the culture, traditions and traditional family values of millions of people making up the core population- Vladimir Putin

What Jesus did on the cross trumps anything you’ve done off the cross - John Boore

‪When Jesus was being who they wanted him to be they gave him praise. When Jesus was being who they needed him to be they gave him thorns- Josh Morris‬

It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world but they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in: aim at earth and you will get neither- CS Lewis

I do not believe one can settle on how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare- CS Lewis

All his life a Christian should be learning more and more about Jesus. The shut mind is the end of discipleship -William Barclay

Progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road- CS Lewis

People need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed- Dr. Johnson

There are times we think God has buried us but He has really planted us- TD Jakes

You need someone by your side not on your back- Syble Robertson

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed- Martina Navratilova

Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but, at least in America, almost never against the crowds- Eugene Peterson

The Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit to give explanation and we are inspired by the Holy Spirit to give demonstration- Rob

Celebrity will seduce you before you know it. If you have to self-promote in order to get the opportunities you seek, you are selling out. Your capacity to move people toward God will be slowly supplanted my your ambition- Ralph Enlow

Comparison is the thief of joy- Teddy Roosevelt

I always skate where the puck is going rather than to where it’s been- Wayne Gretzky

Success is never final, failure is never fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts- Winston Churchill

Violations of sacred time become desecrations of our most intimate relationships with God and one another. Hours and days, weeks and months and years are the very stuff of holiness. When time is desecrated, life is desecrated. The most conspicuous evidences of this desecration are hurry and procrastination. Hurry turns away from the gift of time in a compulsive grasping for abstractions that it can possess and control. Procrastination is distracted from the gift of time in a lazy inattentiveness to the life of obedience and adoration by which we enter the “fullness of time.” Both hurried grasping and procrastinating inattention keep us from honoring the holiness of time- Eugene Peterson

I always get to where I’m going by walking away from where I’ve been- Winnie the Pooh

Sometimes when I’m going somewhere and I wait... somewhere comes to me- Winnie the Pooh

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter - Martin Luther King Jr

You can’t punish your kids out of sin, you love them out of sin- Jim McNabb

Charles Spurgeon, who used to say over and over to himself as he climbed the stairs into his high pulpit, “I believe in the Holy Ghost, I believe in the Holy Ghost.” Spurgeon wrote,

The gospel is preached in the ears of all; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the Gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher; otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preachers’ learning; otherwise it would consist of the wisdom of men. We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it—the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as to preach to humanity, unless the Holy Ghost be with the Word to give it power to convert the soul.

More than a buildings - Mike Dyson

It’s not about buildings or bricks or control

It’s about the stories that are out there and have yet to be told

Our footsteps are aligning in His divine and perfect timing

And our stories are being connected so his glory can be reflected

Onto the lost and rejected so our community can be affected

Because Jesus has been resurrected

There is no way to heaven without going through the future. Sometimes it seems the church thinks the way to heaven is by going back to the past and shunning the future. We live out of the past, not in the past, en route to the future- Leonard Sweet

If you come out of prayer stilled burdened, you didn’t pray, you just griped- Robert Morris

Some are called to go. Some are called to let go

Quit trying and start dying

‪All the time in my life that it seemed I spent waiting, God was working‬- Michelle Castle

‪When we are afraid to pay the price we forfeit the reward - Stephen Kuert

Truth without grace is mean, grace without truth is meaningless- Adam Starling

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent, but by himself is a tragedy- Cus D’Amato, boxing trainer

If you tell the truth your problems become part of your past, but if you lie your problems become part of your future - Rick Pitino

Martina McBridge- All the things we’ve never done

They drank their anniversary glass, A silent moment passed

Then they kissed, She knows there's something on his mind

He'll tell her in due time, What it is

He says "I've never built Your mansion on a hill, Or warmed you in the Spanish sun

I simply blink my eye, And think as years fly by, Of all the things we've never done"

She smiles and takes his hand in hers, And says "It just occurred To me now

The thought that brings you such regret, What hasn't happened yet, It makes me proud"

"You never walked away, When I needed you to stay, Or made me feel I'm not the one

There've been no broken vows, And the reason we're here now, Is all the things we've never done"

"We've never grown apart, You never broke my heart, With secrets that you've kept me from We've never been untrue, And I'm still here with you, Through all the things we've never done"

Someday we are going to die. But all the other days we get to live.

The more personal you think something to be the more universal it actually is- Remarkable

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine - Paulo Coelho

The word LISTEN contains the same letters that make up the word SILENT - Justin Graves

God is onto the fact that some of our gladness over the exposures of high profile people is not for righteousness' sake but for rivalry's sake. We relish no one's public descent more than those whose successes we've resented- Beth Moore

John Wesley once said, 'Your God is my devil

- Even the dark is light to you. Are you more interested in seeing what’s next or clinging to the one who can see in the dark? – Doug Wyatt

It always seems impossible until it's done -Nelson Mandela

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones- Confucius

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did -Newt Gingrich

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you'd be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change? - Karen Salmansohn

Dr. Richard Swenson says in his book Margin, “Margin is the amount allowed beyond what is needed. It is something held in reserve for contingencies or unanticipated situations. Margin is the gap between rest and exhaustion, the space between breathing freely and suffocating. It is the leeway we once had between ourselves and our limits.”

Physical Margin- Do you have physical energy leftover after you meet all of your regularly scheduled responsibilities each day or week?

Emotional Margin- do you have the emotional energy to care about the needs of others, to spend time with people who need encouragement, to invest in the lives or ministries that stir your passions outside of your own world

Financial Margin- Do you have money left over each month to serve others?

Spiritual Margin- Do you have ministry out of the overflow of your life?

‪The Purpose of Persecution is to Limit the Spread of the Gospel. Persecution is not personal, it is spiritual. The enemy knows that one of the most effective tools he can use to limit the access of the Gospel is fear. Fear is wielded most effectively through persecution for sharing the Gospel- Darren Ballard

Faith is accepting what you cannot understand based on what you can understand.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages. ~ Thomas Watson

Advertising is a tax you pay for being unremarkable - Robert Stephens‬

During his time in a Nazi prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to a friend that he was neither a pessimist (expecting things to get worse) nor an optimist (expecting things to get better). He said that he was living by hope

All will be well in the end; and if all isn’t well, it isn’t the end- Paulo Coelho, Brazilian writer

When you’ve got the majority of the world worrying about perception and what they look like, then the people who don’t care about that stuff seem fake to them- Kevin Durant

You can’t please everyone. I’ve found that if I will please Christ, I will please most- Jim McNabb

A parent can only be as happy a their least happy child- Al Roker

‪Fathers have a way of telling their children who they are and if they don’t hear that from them they are open to any lie that comes along

God gave freedom to love and without the choice to say no there’s no meaning to saying yes.

Legalism is nothing but a leader’s way of avoiding suffering. “Rules were invented by elders so they could get to bed early! Men who speak endlessly on authority only prove they have none. And kings who make speeches about submission only betray twin fears in their hearts: They are not certain they are really true leaders, sent of God. And they live in mortal fear of a rebellion- Gene Edwards, A Tale of Three Kings

God is silence and the devil is noisy- Robert Sarah‬

The devil knows you by your name, but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin, but calls you by your name- Craig Groschel

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak to speak. Not to act is to act- Dietrich Bohoeffer

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried- GK Chesterton

Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in your youth

Of all the liars in the world sometimes the worst are your own fears- Rudyard Kipling

When we start being too impressed by the results of our work, we slowly come to the erroneous conviction that life is one large scoreboard where someone is listing the points to measure our worth. And before we are fully aware of it, we have sold our soul to the many grade-givers. That means we are not only in the world, but also of the world. Then we become what the world makes us. We are intelligent because someone gives us a high grade. We are helpful because someone says thanks. We are likable because someone likes us. And we are important because someone considers us indispensable. In short, we are worthwhile because we have successes. And the more we allow our accomplishments — the results of our actions — to become the criteria of our self-esteem, the more we are going to walk on our mental and spiritual toes, never sure if we will be able to live up to the expectations which we created by our last successes. In many people’s lives, there is a nearly diabolic chain in which their anxieties grow according to their successes. This dark power has driven many of the greatest artists into self-destruction- Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

If you're not having major problems you're probably not doing major things- Greg Starling

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always- Life of Pi

When you share your strengths you create competition when you share your weaknesses you create community.

When He was tempted to quit, He kept His eyes on us. When we are tempted to quit, we keep our eyes on Him- Rob McClure

Miracles are events - temporary, academic, and instructive. Our testimonies and relationships are lasting and real. We take our testimony with us to heaven, where the effect of a past earthly miracle is no longer necessary. Praising God for a miracle and remembering what he has done through the miracle, our change of heart, is far better than the miracle itself.

Miracles are not just for the affected person, but, for the witnesses. The witnesses, even those who hear the story, need to see and learn something. The miracle has a purpose far beyond the miracle. Miracles help us see Jesus, otherwise they do not happen. God knows when to intervene with an obvious, miraculous sign, and when we would understand him better without it- Brian Eddy

When Jesus said, "Follow me," he was not asking us to go somewhere, but to be with someone.

When we speak of ourselves, we speak of the name of God. When we are happy we say, “I am happy” and when we are sad we say, “I am sad.” When we tell others who we are we say, “I am” followed by our name. Why is that? It’s because our existence comes from His existence. Our “I am” only exists because of His I am. We only exist because of Him and only from Him do we find our purpose for existence.

Abandon all hope. Hope is not a plan- Travis Osborn

Winners do what is right and then they feel good. Whiners want to feel good before they do what is right- John Maxwell

Are you a winner or a whiner?

The Bible condemns drunkenness, recommends abstinence and condones moderation only under the right circumstances- Bob McKay

v5 fully convinced in your mind

v6 glorify God

v7 realizing we affect others

v12 accountable to God

v21 not offend a brother

A lamp shows me where I am at, a light shows me where I am going

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret- Ambrose Bierce

Leadership is not the end of discipleship- Larry Osborne

Discipleship is the next step of obedience- Larry Osborne

We don't mind being a servant as long as people know we are serving- Larry Osborne

People know what is important by what the important people do- Larry Osborne

‪Most breakthroughs in life are truly "break-withs" - Stephen Covey‬

It's a lifelong journey that will take you in dark places in beautiful place to test and see whether or not you believe God is good- Nancy Ortburg

Your not good at things, but gifted for things

We minimize things that we should maximize and vice versa little things have a way of becoming big things little puppies are so cute but they become big dogs

Compromise now leads to consequences later

Association brings assimilation

Sin always finds the vacancies in our life. Be accountable. Make sure someone knows where you are 24/7- Darius Johnson

We don't need to be in a hurry because eternity has already begun- Dallas Willard

The source of most of our unhappiness in life is that we listen to ourselves rather than talk to ourselves- Martin Loyd Jones

In the spiritual life God chooses to try our patience first of all by His slowness. He is slow: we are swift and precipitate. It is because we are but for a time, and He has been for eternity. Thus grace, for the most part, acts slowly. He works little by little. Sweetly and strongly He compasses His ends, but with a slowness which tires our faith because it is so great a mystery. We must fasten upon this attribute of God in our growth in holiness. There is something greatly overawing in the extreme slowness of God. Let it overshadow our souls, but let it not disquiet them. We must wait for God, long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and the lightning, in the cold and the dark. Wait, and He will come. He never comes to those who do not wait. He does not go their road. When He comes, go with Him, but go slowly, fall a little behind; when he quickens His pace, be sure of it, before you quicken yours. But when He slackens, slacken at once: and do not be slow only, but silent, very silent, for He is God- Fredrick Faber

If you don't stay together through the bad you won't be together for the good.

Distance creates distractions- Kendall & Starla Bridges

People don't grow old when they stop growing. When they stop growing they become old- Deepak Chopra

When you win an argument with God you lose, but when you lose and argument with God you win- Mark Batterson

We want God to do something new while we do something old- Mark Batterson

‪When you pray regularly, irregular things happen- Mark Batterson

Sometimes we get Awards, but the people we minister to are the REward- Dick Foth ‬

One of the greatest gifts you can give anybody is the gift of your honest self. I also believe that kids can spot a phony a mile away- Mr Rogers

Scar tissue is the foundation of character- Ben Sasse

Most sins don’t leap up on you, they creep up on you- Stephen Oldford

What you don’t understand is how much pleasure these things can bring you when you have earned them yourself, when leisure becomes a reward for hard work instead of a way to avoid work- The Ultimate Gift

We don't feel our way into a behavior we behave our way into a feeling

Even though emotions are always real they are not always reliable

You don't get strength for the battle, you get strength from the battle

There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were- Greg McKeown

Depression is caring too little, anxiety is caring too much

Idolatry is a misplace expectation. Could our idol today be God himself - not the real Living God, of course, but the image we have of him based on our misplaced expectations in his name. The misrepresentation of God is the same as taking his name in vain, and that's become (or maybe always has been) the same as idolatry. We use God and "Christianity" as justifications - as stamps of approval for our own desires and expectations- Brian Eddy

David’s faith was nurtured in solitude, but strengthened in conflict, proven in hopelessness- Bill Wilson

Abortion does not preserve a woman’s life — it preserves her lifestyle – Matt Walsh

First-century Christians weren’t organized, had no building, and weren’t recognized by the government. In everyday society, they were basically considered a cult. For nearly three centuries, they remained utterly powerless – ostracized socially, persecuted politically, and tortured physically. And yet somehow their movement continued to grow. How do you explain that? Over the years, a number of historians have explored this phenomenon in detail. How could Christianity not only survive, but actually thrive? Their conclusion is nothing short of remarkable. While Christianity had none of the conventional strengths required to start a movement, its appeal and influence can be traced to an unexpected source: generosity. The hallmark of Christians in the first century was not their wealth. They had none. It was not their theology either. Their beliefs were so odd, religious people couldn’t understand them. What gave them leverage was their inexplicable compassion and generosity. They had little, but they gave. They received little compassion, but they were willing to extend what they had to other people. They were impossible to ignore- Andy Stanley

Emperor Julian described the followers of Jesus as, “Impious Galileans who not only feed their own poor but, ours also”

In a heartless world, the generosity and service of the first Christian generations was such a stunning contrast that people everywhere sat up and took notice. It is fair to speculate that Christian generosity and service did more to win people to the gospel of Christ than all the preaching that was done- Gordon MacDonald

Those who beat swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who don't- Benjamin Franklin.

‪Just as a hospital collects the sick under one roof and labeled them as such, the church collect sinners. Many of the people outside the hospital are every bit as sick as the ones inside, but their illnesses are either undiagnosed or disguised. It's similar with sinners outside the church. Churches are not, as a rule, model communities of good behavior. They are, rather, places were here I miss behavior is brought out in the open, faced, and dealt with.‬- Eugene Peterson

Hearing a testimony is the way I borrow faith from others. Sharing my testimony is the way I loan my faith to others- Mark Batterson

Reverence and awe have been replaced by a yawn of familiarity. The consuming fire has been domesticated into a Candle flame, adding a bit of religious atmosphere, perhaps, but no heat, no blinding light, no power for purification- Donald McCullough

Leadership is the process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others- James Kouzes and Barry Posner

Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet- Charlie Tremendous Jones

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity- Simone Weil

Gossip is the devil's music. Don't be his DJ

Leadership is not a license to do less, but a responsibility to do more- Simon Sinek

Those at the top have all the authority and none of the information. Those at the bottom, have all the information and none of the authority. Not until those without information relinquish their control can an organization run better, smoother and faster and reach its maximum potential- Captain Marquet

In New Testament history, the arrival of the gospel shook entire cities. Local power players trembled. People gathered in stadiums, screamed threats of lynching and the peace was a very much disturbed because their economy was being affected. Many turned from their fascinations with the occult; books were burned; those who traded in magic trinkets got very upset indeed. The faithful souls who were key in Biblical revivals usually became fugitives not lauded celebrities. If revival is what we need, then at the very least, we must not allow our hope of it to sanction laziness about what we are called to do to grab the world’s attention. Revival is a word that can be used as a trump card to allow us to be reluctant to reflect about what we should do, because all of our hope is centered on what God might possibly do- Jeff Lucas

True generosity doesn't stop with possessions. It starts with them- Chip Ingram

I'm more satisfied in the riddles of God than the answers of man- GK Chesterton

When excellence is so diluted to make it accessible to all, there's no authentic achievement- Jeff Lucas

Most valuable revelations come through tribulations- Peter Haas

Premature promotions create remarkable demotions- Peter Haas

Teachability is the ability to relearn what you already know- Matt Keller

Your current devastation may be the greatest thing that has happened to you. Your current delay just might be your current deliverance- Peter Haas

One of the greatest confirmations of God’s love is that He doesn’t answer most of our prayers- Peter Haas

Humble pie is low in calories and high in nutrition, and God gives a disproportionate amount of grace to those who eat it- Peter Haas

The greatest fallacy of leadership is that a higher level of promotion will make your life simpler- Peter Haas

Forgiveness is taking people off your hood and putting them on Gods hook- Peter Haas

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin- Samuel Adams

Character flaws are revealed by Freedom or by Frustration - How you handle "space" or "restriction" is a reliable indicator of your maturity

When you stop praying for your leaders and start planning against your leaders that's a red flag

Couples are usually the most compatible the day they get married the trick is to stay compatible- his needs her needs

Like Adam and Eve, we find that in reaching for the fruit that is missing, we lose the things that really mattered all along. It is not until the garden is gone that we realize how little time we spent taking care of it

Anxiety over relationships is the greatest single cause of human desperation. We never feel more lost than when we are alone. But we are never more vulnerable than when we are in relationship to another person

Christians must always approach the world with those two ministries held in a firm tension. Compassion without conviction is trivial, but conviction without compassion offers no healing

One of the most dangerous days in a man’s life is when he discovers the word tomorrow- Sir James Barrie

You have to allow yourself to feel so you can heal- Sammy Floyd

I have found that the most profound moments, the most life changing ones, are often not the ones you have to search for, not the ones you have to pay for, not the ones you have to plan or pursue or execute with perfection, but are more often than not the ones that happen oganically, right under your nose, orchestrated by the only one who can prick your heart and reveal something so profound in the least profound life moments of all- Erika Knight

If someone has stolen your past, please DON'T let them steal your future too- Adam Starling

I can brag about my scars, not because of how I was hurt, but because of how I've healed- Adam Starling

They pay me to practice. The games are free- Marvin Harrison

What God did in the past is more important than what you did in the past. Stop making your past bigger then Jesus’ past- Herbert Cooper

The pastor's primary task - is not communication but communion- Eugene Peterson

The ironic thing in the body of Christ is that most wolves see themselves as super sheep

Blame enables you to smuggle your issues into your future- Andy Stanley

I like getting into hot water, it keeps you clean- GK Chesterton

Prejudice looks for confirmation and edits out contradiction- Jeff Lucas

There is a big difference between healing and avoiding death

Doubt is not the enemy of faith, but its constant companion- Craig Barnes

The scandalous Christmas message is that the Holy Spirit of God has conceived something in our lives that we hadn't planned- Craig Barnes

The following penetrating words were written on a tombstone in Germany...

You call me Master, and obey me not;

You call me Light, and see me not;

You call me Way, and walk me not;

You call me Wise, and follow me not;

You call me Fair, and love me not;

You call me Rich, and ask me not;

You call me Eternal, and seek me not;

You call me Gracious, and trust me not;

You call me Noble, and serve me not;

You call me Mighty, and honor me not;

You call me Just, and fear me not;

If I condemn you, blame me not

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough- Oprah Winfrey

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter- Paulo Coelho

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with- Mark Twain

You can’t lead people if you need people

The best use of imagination is creativity, the worst use of imagination is anxiety- Deepak Chopra

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made- Franklin D. Roosevelt

You have enemies? Good. That means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life- Winston Churchill

Be careful how you speak to your children, one day it may become their inner voice- Peggy O'Mara

Overwhelm negative thoughts with biblical truth

A budget is telling your money what to do instead of wondering where it went John Maxwell

I met Jesus on the way up. I got to know him on the way down Dave Ramsey

It's not what you preach that matters but what you tolerate- extreme ownership

Demonstration now trumps proclamation- Reggie McNeil

Couples are usually the most compatible the day they get married the trick is to stay compatible- his needs her needs, William Harley

He wants His Presence to be welcomed by man not begrudgingly or with indifference, but with love. This is why God made the world and this is why God created: to be able to raise up the world of man by lowering His presence and coming into man's world with His goodness. This can only happen if man, of his own free will decides that he will let God in.- Temple Institute

Best-selling author Eric Metaxas wrote in the Wall Street Journal article “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God” (Dec. 25, 2014): “In 1966 … astronomer Carl Sagan announced that there were two important criteria for a planet to support life: The right kind of star, and a planet the right distance from that star. Given the roughly octillion – 1 followed by 24 zeros – planets in the universe, there should have been about septillion – 1 followed by 21 zeros – planets capable of supporting life. … But as years passed, the silence from the rest of the universe was deafening. … As of 2014, researches have discovered precisely bubkis – 0 followed by nothing. …”. Eric Metaxas continued: “What happened? As our knowledge of the universe increased, it became clear that there were far more factors necessary for life than Sagan supposed. His two parameters grew to 10 and then 20 and then 50, and so the number of potentially life-supporting planets decreased accordingly. … Peter Schenkel wrote in a 2006 piece for Skeptical Inquirer magazine: ‘In light of new findings … we should quietly admit that the early estimates … may no longer be tenable.’ "As factors continued to be discovered, the number of possible planets hit zero. … In other words, the odds turned against any planet in the universe supporting life, including this one. … Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life – every single one of which must be perfectly met, or the whole thing falls apart. Without a massive planet like Jupiter nearby, whose gravity will draw away asteroids, a thousand times as many would hit Earth’s surface. The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing. Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? … At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces? …”

Eric Metaxas ended: “Theoretical physicist Paul Davies has said that ‘the appearance of design is overwhelming’ … Oxford professor Dr. John Lennox has said ‘the more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator … gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.'”

The devil sends errors into the world in pairs of opposites. He relies on your dislike of one to draw you into the opposite one- CS Lewis

Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy- Leonard Ravenhill

The praying man stops sinning and the sinning man stops praying- Leonard Ravenhill

To be much with God you must be much with God- EM Bounds

When sin is no longer the problem, the gospel is no longer the answer- Brady Boyd

It takes a long time to become old friends- Brady Boyd

I will only have as much spiritual authority as I am willing to submit to- Brady Boyd

If I do not teach the church to worship and pray I will be responsible to entertain them- Brady Boyd

We are a colony of life in a community of death- Eugene Peterson.

One man in the 1400's wrote of the church- The poor man knew no shame and the rich man no haughtiness.

I get how heaven for us is getting to hang out with God, but I don't understand how heaven for God is getting to hang out with us

-Dr Clarensau

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith- Mary Morrissey

If you will STEP OUT God will make sure you have something to STEP ON." -Winston Bui

It's not what you preach that matters but what you tolerate- extreme ownership

When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death- Oliver Sacks

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great- Zig Ziglar

He didn’t create you to meet your needs (although he does) he created you to meet his needs- Adam Starling

The value of an encounter with God is determined by the obedience that follows it- Blake Edgmon

Nothing requires that God be gracious, not even His love. If grace is ever required, it is no longer grace. Grace cannot be required. If we merit it then it is no longer grace; if God is obliged to give it then it is no longer grace. When we think that God must be gracious, we confuse grace with justice. Once I rebel against God, He owes me nothing… If God deals with us ultimately on the basis of justice alone, we will perish- RC Sproul

"C" your way to a championship. Called to greatness, Challenge yourself, Compete to be the best you can be, Cooperate as a team, Congratulate each other, Consistency, Championship- Michael Irvin

Guard your thoughts and you'll never have to fear your actions- JC Ryle

Many people trade what they love for what they like

Intellectual analysis usually results in spiritual paralysis- Mark Batterson

One of the great mistakes we make is asking God to do for us what God wants us to do for him- Mark Batterson

When Christianity turns into a noun, it becomes a turn off. Christianity was intended to be a verb- Mark Batterson

One third of college students believe they should give it be for showing up to most of the classes. Two thirds of college students believe the professor should raise their grade based on the fact that they try hard. Participatory trophies are based on the false premise that the key to success is self-esteem- Jean Twenge

Oh Lord chicken we've had it hot and we've had it cold

We've had it young and we've had it old

We've had it tender and we've had it tough

But good Lord don't you think we've had it enough

One thing that I learned from judo...Maximum efficiency and minimum effort- Ronda Rousey

There is this really crazy, its cultural, its insane, there is this really weird thing, not just in evangelicals, but in the culture at large, that we somehow don’t want to tell our kids what to do, as if that will somehow suppress there inner being. That is the dumbest thing ever. You are the only one not telling your kid what to do. You are their parent and you are the only one not saying anything- Matt Chandler

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming- John Wooden

You can outscore your opponent and lose and you can be outscored and win- John Wooden

According to Coach John Wooden, this poem was written by George Moriarty, a former major baseball umpire.

Sometimes I think the fates must grin as we denounce them and insist,

The only reason we can’t win is the fates themselves have missed.

Yet, there lives on the ancient claim – we win or lose within ourselves,

The shining trophies on our shelves can never win tomorrow’s game.

So you and I know deeper down there is a chance to win the crown,

But when we fail to give our best, we simply haven’t met the test

Of giving all and saving none until the game is really won.

Of showing what is meant by grit, of fighting on when others quit,

Of playing through not letting up, it’s bearing down that wins the cup.

Of taking it and taking more until we gain the winning score,

Of dreaming there’s a goal ahead, of hoping when our dreams are dead,

Of praying when our hopes have fled. Yet, losing, not afraid to fall,

If bravely we have given all, for who can ask more of a man

than giving all, it seems to me, is not so far from – Victory.

And so the fates are seldom wrong, no matter how they twist and wind,

It’s you and I who make our fates, we open up or close the gates,

On the Road Ahead or the Road Behind

Nothing in God is ever addictive. People don't get addicted to reading the Bible and praying are going to church. God want you to do it because you want to not because you have to- Jimmy Evans

Knowledge doubled every century in 1900. By 1945 knowledge doubled every 25 years. Today knowledge doubled nearly every 2 years and IBM says knowledge will soon double every 12 hours.

Truth without grace surgery without anesthesia. Grace without truth is a bottle with no medicine in it- Jimmy Evans

God didn’t make people to get work done, He made work to get people done- Don Clifton

Demonstration now trumps proclamation- Reggie McNeil

No one alone, no one unknown- Adam Starling

New levels, new Devils- Adam Starling

Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity...Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. Pope Benedict XVI

Myles Monroe- Pass it on

Success is not what happens while you are alive. Success is what happens after you leave.

Leaving your child a building or a house is not succession. That is inheritance. Whatever a person inherits, he can lose, but if you mentor a person, he cannot lose what you gave him. Mentoring is a transfer of things that are durable: vision, passion, intent, and character.

Leaders do not seek power. They seek to empower

A vision that is genuinely from God will always be bigger than your lifetime

What happens in your absence will be the measure of your greatness.

Authority is different than power. Authority is permission. Power is ability. Authority is position. Power is control. You can have power but not authority. You can have authority without power.

Choose one who:

• Loves you, not your vision.

• Loves you, not your gift.

• Protects what you have.

• Loves you more than your power.

• Would die for you.

• Would take a risk for your benefit.

The two worst things you can do in life? First, refuse to love. Second, refuse to be loved- Leonard Sweet

In a leadership culture the leaders are typically in the “leader ship,” and the rest are in the “fellow ship.” Jesus has one ship: “disciple ship”. All the disciples are in the same boat. And Jesus is the captain, the one and only Leader – Leonard Sweet

The men who crave power are best fitted to acquire it and least fitted to exercise it- Exodus Gods and kings

The first to apologize is the bravest, the first to forgive is the strongest, and the first to forget is the happiest

A change in the weather shouldn't mean a change in our worship- Scott Williams

Step out to find out- Scott Williams

The secret to prayer is getting alone until you are not alone anymore- Don Hutchings

God created work to get people done- Reggie McNeal

In a sense, every great word must become flesh- Barclay

We don't lose the battle with cancer we win our battle with faith

The three most beautiful lights in the world are sunlight, moonlight, and taillights

To work harder you have to care more- Jon Gordon

The community is not seeking church, they are seeking solutions

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur- Evelyn Underhill

When God's kingdom comes, we will have all we need. But as great as that reality will be, there is something greater still, which is that we will only want exactly what we have. We will live from that place called enough- Eugene Peterson

We don’t need a touch-down, just a first down- Dan Rockwell

Worrying doesn't take away our problems, it takes away our peace.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard

If you want to grow, make it a habit to never be the smartest person in the room.

You are writing a gospel, a chapter each day; By things that you do; By things you say. Others read that gospel, whether faithless or true! Say! What is the Gospel According To You?- Leroy Brownlow

Workaholics are killing as many families as alcoholics but we demonize one and celebrate the other

Because heresies threatened the living apostolic message, it had to be recorded in a book to protect it from falsification. Preaching reverses this process of conservation again, allowing the Scriptures of the past to become the tidings of the present … The Gospel has been committed to lifeless paper; fresh words can transform it into glad tidings again- Martin Luther

There has never been a murder, but he caused it. There has never been a sanguinary war, but he instituted it. There has never been a death scene, but it is traceable to him. Every blight of human happiness, every failure of human peace, every sorrow of human life, has come from him. All the fiery passions that rankle in men, and break forth in deeds of violence and blood, are his inspirations- Joseph Seiss, the apocalypse

The son of God became a man so that men could become a son of God- CS Lewis

Prayer connects us to God and fasting disconnects us from the world

The Bible doesn't tell the world to go to church but it does tell the church to go to the world- Ricki Jiminez

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. -Babe Ruth

When Jesus isn't known intimately he can't be shown accurately- Robert Madu

I will not die until I see Jesus and then I will never die- Len Sweet’s mom on her deathbed

Make sure our choices today are in line with our goals for tomorrow- Rodney Wardwell

If you're praying Christian your faith in God will carry you if you're not a praying Christian you will have to carry your faith in God- Ravi Zacharias

To follow Jesus is to be in the right mission—the way: missional living.

To follow Jesus is to be in the right relationships—the truth: relational living.

To follow Jesus is to be in the right future—the life: incarnational living- Leonard Sweet

This seems to be a natural progression that Jesus proposed: first belonging (way), then believing (truth), then behaving (life)- Leonard Sweet

Life in the Spirit involves not only breathing but also moving, seeing, and listening- Leonard Sweet

“I read myself full [lectio], think myself clear [meditatio], pray myself hot [oratio], and let myself go [contemplatio].”- Old Mountain Preacher

We don’t need bigger barns. But we do need bigger Upper Rooms- Leonard Sweet

An eye for an eye makes the world blind- Mahatma Gandhi

Stop asking outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders- Andy Stanley

Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better- Steve Maraboli

The church began as a movement in Jerusalem, it became a philosophy in Greece, an institution in Rome, a culture in Europe, an enterprise in America.

Much of our culture has rejected the idea that God designed sex for the lifelong union between a man and a woman, and embraced instead the idea that it serves any purpose we want. Old rules are out; but that doesn’t mean that anything goes. Writing at the Gospel Coalition, Alistair Roberts lists what he says are the new laws of sexual morality.

1) It’s meaningless. Nothing partners do with one another relates to any higher order, nor is it regulated by any universal truth.

2) Anyone who says otherwise is infringing on your rights. Sexual inclinations are the core of who you are, and that means disapproval is discrimination.

3) Male and female are interchangeable, consent is the only ethical boundary, and no one type of relationship is more valuable than another. Transgress these new laws, and you’re in for it

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose. It is even doubtful, you know, whether the whole universe was created for any other purpose. It says in the Bible that the whole universe was made for Christ and that everything is to be gathered together in Him- CS Lewis

We all have two enemies, the devil and ourselves- Biship Oleggi

We don't use the gifts of the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit use us- Jim McNabb

If you stumble make it part of your dance- Lolly Daskal

We over-estimate what we can do in the short term and we under-estimate what we can do in the long term- Jeromye Jackson

By Gods grace my kids will never know my scars -Linda McNabb

Do you come to church wearing a bib or an apron? -Mel Masengale

Justification leads to sanctification leads to glorification- Rob

Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future- Daphne Kingma

The longer you wait the more it hurts- Dan Rockwell

Sweet are the uses of adversity- William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course- William Shakespeare

Your work ethic tells me about your expectancy of God

Your ability to rest tells me about your dependency on God- Mike Miller

The Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it yourself- Benjamin Franklin

Turn your wounds into wisdom

Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired - Spurgeon

Condemnation is the devil pushing us away from Jesus conviction is the Holy Spirit drawing us to Jesus

“According to the International Society for Human Rights, a secular observatory based in Frankfurt, Germany, 80 per cent of all acts of religious discrimination in the world today are directed at Christians. Statistically speaking, that makes Christians by far the most persecuted religious body on the planet.”

God always gives enough time to do His Will. If you lack time, you're either doing things out of his will, OR in wrong ways- Rick Warren

Marriage is two people who should give up on giving up on each other. Still the best picture of the gospel- Sammy Rhodes

Bitterness is anger that forgot where it came from- Alain de Botton

There's only one thing worse than fighting with allies, that is fighting without them- Winston Churchill

Fear gives small things a big shadow- Lawrence Neisent

To many people truth is less important than the number of times you hear it

Sometimes your best isn't good enough do what's required- Winston Churchill

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light - Plato

Philosopher Erich Fromm said there are two societies today, one based on having and another one based on being. A society based on having focuses on things like property possessions even people. The one based on being focuses on their experiences. They derive meaning from sharing exchanging and engaging with other people. A culture driven by consumerism like ours is doomed to the having orientation which leads to dissatisfaction and emptiness. This may be why America has exploded to having over 2 billion square feet of public storage in the past 30 years.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important- CS Lewis

We embrace a value, then the value creates a choice, a choice becomes a discipline and then a discipline becomes a rule. After a while, the value fades, but the rule remains. And we’ve forgotten the reason that the rule was made in the first place. That’s the difference between religion and relationships- Jeff Lucas

Churches are the perfect environment to nurture immorality. We talk intimately. We laugh together, crying together. We hug and hold each other and say that we love each other- Jeff Lucas

The church is designed for Gods purposes, not our preferences- Jeff Lucas

We only really get a life when we've realized that life is not about getting- Jeff Lucas

The cross isn't a plus sign where we add Jesus onto our lives, it's a place where things go to die

Timing has been the key to the transitions in our church. And the transition has to be worth the pain involved- Jim McNabb

Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship- Rob Bell

There's a reason it is a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven

The hardest person for me to pastor in my church is myself

Our darkest hour is when the world is between us and the sun- Robert McClure

When you stop praying for your leaders and start planning against your leaders that's a red flag

The lid on your organization is the person’s feelings you’re trying to protect.. The conversation down the hallway goes like this. “We can’t bring that issue up because Mr./Ms. ‘I’m The Center of the Universe’ will get upset.”. The drama queens you dance around determines how far you go.. Sammy Salesman gets bent out of shape if reporting systems change. Dance around Sammy and, eventually, you end up in the dark.. The person you’re afraid to confront anchors your team.. Oh! We can’t change our delivery system because Susie Secretary will freak out. The team ends up serving Susie, rather than customers.. Weak organizations are governed by the preferences of those who can’t be upset.. The people you constantly comfort may be friends, but they are the enemy of innovation and excellence.. The people you comfort determine the level of excellence you achieve- Dan Rockwell

We lead through our strengths but we connect through our weaknesses

Socrates was the first to explain communication in three dimensions. He talked about ethos as the speaker’s character, pathos as the speaker’s compassion, and logos as the speaker’s content

God gave Adam a job before he gave him a wife. Quit workin to get a date if you ain't workin to pay for the date- Jeremy Donovan

Anyone can start something new. It takes real leaders to stop something old

Compassion is always inconvenient

Don’t just delegate tasks but delegate the results as well- Stephen Covey

When it comes to living for God, everyone is looking for and example or an excuse... Which are you?

David killed a giant as a servant but killed Uriah as a king. He fought a lion has a servant but fought lust as a king. He looked at God as a servant but look at Bathsheba as a king- Don Hutchings

As children we are afraid of the dark, but as adults, we are afraid of the light- Andy Andrews

When confronted with a challenge the committed heart will search for a solution the undecided heart searches for an escape- Andy Andrews

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak but they are the weapons of the wise- Andy Andrews

The person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be- Andy Andrews

In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at halftime the tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins- Andy Andrews

Could hell be that we will be chained to the mirror of regret to spend eternity examining a reflection of the person we could have become- Andy Andrews

Too many people doubt their beliefs and believe their doubts- Andy Andrews

Faith and fear are the same. Faith or fear is the expectation of an event that hasn't come to pass or the belief in something that cannot be seen or touched- Andy Andrews

Experience doesn't make you better, evaluated experience makes you better - Howard Hendricks

The church expects people to believe and then learn to behave before we let them belong. But today people should be allowed to belong, while they figure out how to behave, and what they believe- Ron Martoia

Is never the duty of the leader to struggle for someone else, a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that their struggles are worthwhile- The travelers gift- Andy Andrews

When a king begins to act like a king it's time for someone else to be King- The travelers gift- Andy Andrews

Religion says DO. The Bible says DONE.

You’re as free as your secrets

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others only when they feel the heat

You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one- Tony Evans

Grief doesn't destroy who you are. It reveals who you are- Rick Warren

Suffering is inevitable. Self-pity is optional - Rick Warren

Your brand is the exhaust created by the engine of your life. It is a by-product of what happens as you share what you are creating, and with whom you are creating- Nilofer Merchant

Wonder makes words of praise louder– JRR Tolkien

Craig Groeschel

1) To the older generation

Don't resent, fear or judge the emerging generation, believe in them. When you delegate tasks to the next generation you create followers. When you delegate responsibility you create leaders. If you're not dead you're not done. Be real, be yourself. Authenticity always trumps cool. You can either fight it or fund it.

2) To the younger generation

Employers said the greatest challenge of this generation is feeling entitled. We overestimate what God does in the short run and underestimate what he does in the long run. The older generation will allow you to influence them because you honor them. The younger generation doesn't honor older people because they feel entitled. This is the most cause driven, missions minded generation in modern history.

The only time you start at the top is when you are digging a hole- Sam Chand

This gives us insight into what truly is biblical stewardship. Biblical stewardship is defined as the effective investment of what is placed in our trust to get the greatest return for the Master. Not how well we save what He has entrusted to us. Biblical stewardship is not expense management but investment management. And there could not be a greater difference between the two- Rick Dunham

The question is not why is the enemy attacking more but why are more of his attacks landing- Robert Morris

To get from the present to the promise, I must first endure the process- Chad Arnold

We spend too much time trying to convince others, instead of believing in ourselves- De La Vega

I believe the most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be the undivided attention- Phil Cooke

The best way to predict the future is to create it- Jeanne Mayo

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act- George Orwell

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind- George Orwell

You have to get INVOLVED to have IMPACT. No one was ever impressed with the win-loss record of the referee- Jeanne Mayo

The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues, otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost- CS Lewis

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence then maybe you ought to water your side of the fence

Marriage is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person- Lynn Wheeler

"If we weren't supposed to have problems, God sure wasted a lot of time giving us promises." Pastor McNabb

The great Roman orator Cicero wrote “there is an irrefutable argument for us to believe in the existence of the gods: namely, that there never was any nation so barbarous, nor any people in the world so savage, as to be without some notion of gods”

Believing in everything at the same time is the same as not believing in anything at all- Life of Pi

You only need to convert to three other religions and you can spend your whole life on holiday- Life of Pi

It's not what we have to offer that will get people to come to our church but why we offer it - Jim McNabb

The devil always sends errors into the world in pairs of opposites... He relies on your dislike of one to draw you into the opposite one- CS Lewis

Patience is in the waiting. Waiting is waiting. Patience is what you do while you wait. Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to have a good attitude while you wait- Joyce Meyer

We spend a lot of time in our lives waiting because change is a process. Many people want change, but they don't want to go through the waiting process. But the truth is, waiting is a given—we are going to wait. The question is, are we going to wait the wrong or right way?

All of us will wait passively, or we'll wait expectantly. A passive person hopes something good will happen and is willing to sit around waiting to see if it does. After a short time, he gives up, saying, "That’s it! I've waited and waited and nothing's happened." The passive person has a lot of wishbone but not much backbone! The expectant person, on the other hand, is hopeful, believing the answer is just around the corner, due to arrive any minute. His belief is not a passive thing. His heart is full of hope, expecting his problem to be solved at any moment. He wakes up every morning expecting to find his answer. He may wait and wait, but suddenly what he’s been waiting for happens.- Joyce Meyer

If you really want to be free from damaging appetites in your life then stop feeding them! The battle takes place long before the behavior.

Do one thing every day that scares you- Mary Schmich

In the end you're measured not by what you undertake but by what you finally accomplish- Donald Trump

You will not become a better Christian because you learn more about God, but because you have experienced more with God- Rob McClure

Once you abolish God, the government becomes God- G.K. Chesterton

The greatest single cause for atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable- Rev. Billy Graham

We've escorted God out of our culture and then we act surprised when a culture without him actually reflects what it's become- Mike Huckabee

The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper, on their final day together, shortly before his assassination. The seven blunders are:

Wealth without work.

Pleasure without conscience.

Knowledge without character.

Commerce without morality.

Science without humanity.

Worship without sacrifice.

Politics without principle.

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependence back into bondage”

2009 book, “Creating an Opportunity Society,” Haskins and Sawhill identified three crucial social norms: graduating high school, having a full-time job, and waiting until you’re 21 and married to have children. Only 2 percent of those who follow all three norms were in poverty in 2007, whereas 76 percent of people who followed none of them were in poverty that year- Rick Santorum

Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them.

Betting more money on a loosing horse won't make him run faster!

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else - George Halas

We are a planning, strategizing, implementing people, yet radical obedience to Christ requires that we be a praying people- David Platt

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him, after all, so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first? -Elizabeth Elliott

Too many times we want Gods destinations but we want to follow our own directions- Jason Patterson

People talk about magnifying God, How do you magnify something that is already indescribably big. To magnify means to look under the microscope like you do with a leaf and see things you've never seen before

We don't use the gifts of the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit use us- Jim McNabb

We will never change until the pain of staying where you are becomes greater than the pain of change- Soaring Higher- Pat Mesiti

Change doesn’t occur by chance. It occurs by choice.

The devil loves to compare what you've done with who God is he just tends to leave out what Jesus did in the middle to bring the two together- Stephen Leblanc

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt- Dallas Willard

Rev. William John Henry Boetcker- Ten Things You Cannot Do

* You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

* You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

* You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

* You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

* You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

* You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

* You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

* You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

* You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

* You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Grace is opposed to earning but not effort- Dallas Willard

There's a difference between being loved and being loving- Pete Wilson

God is most powerfully present even when he seems most obviously absent- Pete Wilson

Sheep are not burden bearing animals- Robert Morris

Feedback is critical. But, living in the whim of of everyone's preference breeds insanity and keeps a church immature- Rich Kirkpatrick

When Edwin Stanton tried to resign as War Minister in April 1865, the President reportedly said: "Stanton, you cannot go. Reconstruction is more difficult and dangerous than construction or destruction.

If the creator of the universe has an intellect equal to mine you all are in a world of hurt. I don't want a god that I can fully understand- comedian Brad Stine

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present

SECRET: Something you tell to one person at a time

ADULT: someone who stops growing at the ends and starts growing in the middle

Flattery will say to your face what it won't say behind your back. Gossip will say behind your back what it won't say to your face-Mr. Brown

The righteous say little and do much. The wicked say much but do nothing- R. Eleazar, Bava Mitzia 87a

The ministries of the church are not important than the weekend service. When the vision for Sunday is weak, a host of auxiliary ministries will spring up like weeds and choke out the Sunday service- Willie George

God will do the super, when we do the natural- Ryan Summers

If you're a manager the ONE thing you CANNOT delegate is listening- Greg Starling

Las Vegas was built by losers- David Feherty

Ronald Reagan- If we cease to be a nation under God then we will be a nation gone under

In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers that confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation with regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell- General William Booth

Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities- Peter Drucker

God can heal a broken heart.... but He wants all the pieces

Shame awakens the voice of conscience that reminds us that we are not meant to be animals- R Hirsch

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace- John Wesley

The pastor is Gods gift to the church, the board is the churches gift to the pastor

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. -Unknown

Many people are able to build heroically, but few are able to make the decision to tear down- Chumash

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit- Aristotle

We can't survive here but we also can't even seem to die here either- mother of a child in slave labor in Nepal

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent value is the equal sharing of misery- Winston Churchill

Life is what happens while your busy making other plans- John Lennon

The more real you get the more unreal it's gonna get- line from movie "Ali"

My opinion doesn't change anything but it has influence- Jim McNabb

In 1999 the popular American novelist Stephen King was laying in a ditch after being struck by a drunk driver. Although wealthy and successful by any standard, he recognized the fleeting value of temporal things and concluded, “All that lasts is what you pass on.”

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer- George Patton

You give 100% in the first half of the game, and I'd that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left- Yogi Berra

Our inability to shape culture and, instead, play catch up with culture through philosophies of relevance is the result of having the wrong types of people in key positions within the church. Our hunger to become relevant exposes one of our weaknesses: that we have placed managers in roles that demand innovators, gatekeepers instead of freedom fighters, and comfort keepers instead of risk takers

Without a DEVOTIONAL life, you will have an EMOTIONAL life- Jeanne Mayo

Giving does not count unless love motivates it and doing does not count unless love demonstrates it- Mother Teresa

Money is the worlds currency, faith is Gods currency- Huldah Buntain

God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. D.L. Moody

Money has yet to make anyone rich- Roman philosopher Seneca

Life really can’t be measured by its Duration, but by its Donation Corrie Ten Boom

Gods mercy does not make sin safe- Matt Chandler

Faith in God includes faith in His timing- Neal Maxwell

When you lie to yourself it's almost impossible to be honest with anyone- John Ponder

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

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing- Michael LaBeof

I conquered the world, and it didn't bring me true happiness- Muhammed Ali

The height of intimacy is limited by the depth of insecurity

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it build, they’ll want something new- Steve Jobs

No man knows how bad he is until he has tried to be good- C. S. Lewis

Worry looks around, sorry looks back, faith looks up- roger lance

There are many ways to win but only one way to fail and that is to fail to look beyond your failures-

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what truly important- Steve Jobs

Your time is limited. Don't waste it living somebody else's life- Steve Jobs

The inspiration of the Christian comes not from fear of what God will do to him, but from the inspiration of what God has done for him- William Barclay

Forgiveness is not forgetting but remembering the right way- John Johnson

If you forget yourself for others, others will never forget you.

The Father has been practicing His “welcome home” speech longer than you’ve been practicing your “I’m sorry” speech- Robert Morris

It remains to be seen what God will do with a man who gives himself up wholly to him- Henry Varley

Our kids will live the unedited version of our lives

The principal point of the law in true Christian theology is to make people not better but worse that is to say it shows them their sin so that they may be humbled terrified bruised and broken and by this means be driven to seek comfort and so to come to that blessed Christ- Martin Luther

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody Mark Twain

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." - Peter F. Drucker

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why- Warren Bennis

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you - Max DePree

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader - John Quincy Adams

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist- Eric Hoffer

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power - Abraham Lincoln

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them - John Maxwell

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity - General George Patton

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others - Bill Gates  

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency - Arnold Glasow

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers - Ralph Nader

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it - Theodore Roosevelt

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison

The depth of relationship equals the depth of discipleship. Lots of time together doing life together- Jason Patterson

The meaning of the passage is the message of the sermon- Bryan Chappell

Information without application yield frustration. Preachers who cannot answer a "So what?" will preach to a "Who cares?"- Bryan Chappell

Explanations prepare the mind, illustrations prepare the heart, and applications prepare the will to obey God- Bryan Chappell

The difference between being a church member and a church attender is commitment- Rick Warren

God wants you to love real people not just ideal people- Rick Warren

It's not so much about gaining followers. It's about inspiring more leaders- Phil Cook

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable- Joyce Brothers

There is a God we want and a God that is, and the two are not the same God - Patrick Morley

We are not human beings on the spiritual journey rather we are spiritual beings on a human journey- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There are second things and there are first things. Pursue second things and you will have neither, but pursue the first thing and second things are thrown in for free- CS Lewis

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you- Jean-Paul Sartre

A test is an opportunity with the goal of success. Temptation is an opportunity with the goal of failure- Preston Morrison

He was like a chlorine tablet. When he came into your life you cleaned up

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go- T. S. Elliot

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. -Arnold H. Glasow

If you will take care of the depth of your life, God will take care of the breadth of your influence. Deep before wide. - Dr Bradford

The foundation of heritage & history is exponentially cheapened by the inability of the next generations to built upon it.

In a time of crisis, people do not rise to the occasion but fall to the level of their preparation- Willie George

Happiness doesnt come from having the things you want but rather wanting the things you already have- Kent Munsey

Every saint has a past & with Christ, every sinner has a future! Craig Groeschel

When you are gifted you are lifted- Ricki Jiminez

When we pray we seek God. When we worship God seeks us- Ricki Jiminez

To change is difficult. NOT to change is fatal- Phil Cooke

So when we begin with an argument with, ‘I wouldn’t believe in a God who would …’ Who would what? Do something that you wouldn’t do? Or think in a way that is different than the way you think? Do you ever even consider the possibility that maybe the Creator’s sense of justice is actually more developed than yours? And that maybe His love and His mercy are perfect. And that you could be the one that is flawed?- Francis Chan on Rob Bell

Religion is what's left over after the Holy Spirit has left the room- Bono

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late- Ben Franklin

When you delegate tasks to the next generation you create followers. When you delegate responsibility you create leaders- Craig Groeschel

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. —Dorothy Sarnoff, opera singer

If you think you've got God figured out you're worshiping your theology you're not worshiping God. God is mysterious. The question is can you serve a God you don't understand or do you have to be able to explain everything- Brady Boyd

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run- Babe Ruth

I am prepared to go anywhere as long at it if forward- David Livingstone

There are two great tasks in life, one is becoming, the other is unbecoming- Joseph Campbell

Christ did more in His submission as a lamb than He did in his leadership as a lion- TD Jakes

Assayas: The Son of God who takes away the sins of the world. I wish I could believe in that.

Bono: But I love the idea of the Sacrificial Lamb. I love the idea that God says: Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there's a mortality as part of your very sinful nature, and, let's face it, you're not living a very good life, are you? There are consequences to actions. The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That's the point. It should keep us humbled . It's not our own good works that get us through the gates of heaven.

Assayas: That's a great idea, no denying it. Such great hope is wonderful, even though it's close to lunacy, in my view. Christ has his rank among the world's great thinkers. But Son of God, isn't that farfetched?

Bono: No, it's not farfetched to me. Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: he was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets, be they Elijah, Muhammad, Buddha, or Confucius. But actually Christ doesn't allow you that. He doesn't let you off that hook. Christ says: No. I'm not saying I'm a teacher, don't call me teacher. I'm not saying I'm a prophet. I'm saying: "I'm the Messiah." I'm saying: "I am God incarnate." And people say: No, no, please, just be a prophet. A prophet, we can take. You're a bit eccentric. We've had John the Baptist eating locusts and wild honey, we can handle that. But don't mention the "M" word! Because, you know, we're gonna have to crucify you. And he goes: No, no. I know you're expecting me to come back with an army, and set you free from these creeps, but actually I am the Messiah. At this point, everyone starts staring at their shoes, and says: Oh, my God, he's gonna keep saying this. So what you're left with is: either Christ was who He said He was the Messiah or a complete nutcase. I mean, we're talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. This man was like some of the people we've been talking about earlier. This man was strapping himself to a bomb, and had "King of the Jews" on his head, and, as they were putting him up on the Cross, was going: OK, martyrdom, here we go. Bring on the pain! I can take it. I'm not joking here. The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me, that's farfetched

Remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others-JA Holmes

Impossible is a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given rather than explore the power they have to change it- Muhammed Ali

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources- Albert Einstein

Sin will keep me from this book and this book will keep me from sin- RA Torrey

Hope gives faith something to work with that’s why the devils eats at our hope- Brian Houston

If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy... - Mumford and Sons

God will not hold you accountable for how much you have done, but for how much you have done that he has asked you to do- Mancini

People will not desert a leader; they only desert a boss. People will not quit a mission; they only quit a job- Joe Tyre

Tithing is the training wheels of giving- Robert Morris

Holiness in refers to separation and elevation. A holy person is apart from others because he tries to remove himself from the temptations and urges that drag human beings down from the estate to which they should aspire- the Chumash

Honor isn’t about making the right choices. It’s about dealing with the consequences

If you can't say, "no" then your "yes" doesn't mean anything

We tend to send honor up. We turn Ps into VIPs, rooms into greenrooms, and Americans into idols. But here’s the paradigm shift with Jesus. He sent honor down. Those who were last became first, those who had least gave most, and those in the lowest seats got promoted.

A friend is someone who stabs you in the front

Temptation is simply an invitation to meet legitimate needs by illegitimate means. Don't take the shortcut- Brady Boyd

Before you resign, Resign to God first, yourself second, your wife third and maybe you won't make it to the board- Jim McNabb

Are you trying to pray yourself out of something you behaved yourself into?

The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him

The future belongs to those who see the possibilities before they become obvious- John Sculley

The better the man the better the preacher. When he kneels by the bed of the dying or when he mounts the pulpit stairs, then every self denial he has made every Christian forbearance he has shown every resistance to sin and temptation will come back to strengthen his arm and give conviction to his voice. Likewise every evasion of duty every indulgence of self every compromise with evil every unworthy thought word or deed will be there at the head of the pulpit stairs to meet the minister on Sunday morning, to take the light from his eye the power from his blow the ring from his voice and the joy from his heart- Dr. Clarence Macartney

The Lottery is a tax on dumb people

Sometimes the best lessons that we could learn are on the road to someplace else. -Steve Brown

The only thing worse than training employees & losing them is not training them & keeping them -Zig Ziglar

The proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. -Henry Ward Beecher

If we aren't careful technology can allow us to be anywhere we want except where we are- Phil Cooke

You have 4 kinds of people in your life: those who add, multiply, subtract or divide- Rick Warren

You deserve what you tolerate

The reason the disciples were afraid in the storm is because they forgot Jesus said, "Let's go to the other side".

If you must understand what you can't understand it will impede your progress. I don't understand plumbing but I use it.

Bragging on how much you overwork is a confession of bad stewardship with your time

When you stop giving & offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights- George Burns

Condemnation is the devil dragging us into a graceless past. Fear is him pushing us into a Godless future. Love is living in the now with God- Brady Boyd

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation bangs on your door forever- Jeanne Mayo

The perfection of God makes beggars of our vocabulary- Paul York

In Rugby you have to pass the ball backwards to move forward

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people- Eleanor Roosevelt

Gospel pyramid scheme- I serve you so you will serve me and you serve me so I will serve you. People serve under you so when you'll remember them when you come into your kingdom.

Mystery is the confidence to know that all the answers are out there, but the patience to live in the question - David McFadzean

Our responsibility is to know our responsibility- Mike McLafflin

Gospel pyramid scheme- I serve you so you will serve me and you serve me so I will serve you. People serve under you so when you'll remember them when you come into your kingdom.

Kenda Dean, Almost Christian- More American teenagers are embracing what she calls "moralistic therapeutic deism." Translation: It's a watered-down faith that portrays God as a "divine therapist" whose chief goal is to boost people's self-esteem.

The devil has seldom done a more clever thing, than hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. From speaking out the gospel, the Church has gradually toned down her testimony, then winked at and excused the frivolities of the day. Then she tolerated them in her borders. Now she has adopted them under the plea of reaching the masses! ...In vain will the epistles be searched to find any trace of the 'gospel of amusement'. Their message is, "Therefore, come out from them and separate yourselves from them... Don't touch their filthy things..." Anything approaching amusement is conspicuous by its absence. They had boundless confidence in the gospel and employed no other weapon- Archibald Brown (late 1800’s)

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'- Martin Luther

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him- Benjamin Franklin

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired- Jules Renard

Die before you die. There is no chance after- C. S. Lewis

Place my faith in Gods faithfulness

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration- Thomas Edison

Kyle Rote Jr. stated, “There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure”

"Fishing is a good metaphor for prayer. The unpredictablity of the element, its tempestuousness at times, its windless calm at others. And its depth, its vastness—the feeling that we're just skimming surfaces—that the mystery and marvel folds down into unfathomable and often unreachable dark- ness. The thrill when something—anything—takes the line, and the disappointment and often the mess when its not what you had hoped for. And always waiting.

"Prayer and waiting are intrinsically linked, joined at the hip. Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting. Prayer is about being made in the likeness of Christ. Conformed, reformed, transformed. If prayer was only about getting things—getting even, getting rich, getting well, getting justice—then we would call it something else. We have lots of names to describe the quest and method for getting those things: magic, medicine, capitalism, lobbying.

"But prayer is not about bartering and bargaining with God, haggling for the best deal; a pound of piety for remission of sickness. Prayer, at its heart, is about becoming like the crucified and risen Christ. And that is a work like wind carving stone. It is slow, painful, toiling work, rarely swift or easy. It is riddled with wrenching setbacks, and its break-throughs are more serendipitous than calculated. There are disciplines for prayer, to be sure, but no mechanisms. Gimmicks and panaceas—like glittery gimcrack lures for fishermen—are widely available and equally useless. There is simply no substitute for becoming like Christ other than being with Christ, and especially with Him in solitude and suffering and sorrow. And so prayer, like fishing, is about waiting. Prayer is the poetry of waiting. It is the language of those who know that what is now is not what should be and not what will be, if we wait." Mark Buchanan, from Your God is Too Safe

greatness is defined by it's biggest struggle.

No person was ever honored for what he received; honor has been the reward for what he gave - Calvin Coolidge

Manipulation is the devil’s counterfeit for influence

God is no respecter of persons but he is a respecter of principles- TD Jakes on why some churches grow and others don’t

Time can talk you out of your dreams- Steve Furtick

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted - Albert Einstein

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking- George S. Patton

Gen. MacArthur had a plaque on his wall with the following statement about age, “Youth is not time of life it is a state of mind you're as young as your faith as old as your fear as young as your hope as old as your despair”

There three types of Christians, separatists who reject culture, conformists who embrace culture and transformists who change culture. Only transformists are relevant Separatists think they love God but end up failing to love people Conformist think they love people but end up failing to love God Transformists love people and love God- Kay Oberbrunner, The Fine Line

Reconciliation takes two people, forgiveness only takes one

For every one mile of road there are 2 miles of ditch. Don't despise the preparation process

At Pentecost, Jesus went up, the Holy Spirit came down, the disciples went out and the lost came in

Most read books. Some write them.

Most attend conferences. Some create them.

Most fake intimacy. Some live intimately.

Most love great design. Some design.

Most listen to great music. Some write great music.

Most point out problems. Some solve them.

Most admire beautiful art. Some create it.

Most receive generously. Some give generously.

Most imagine what should've been. Some imagine what can be.

Most criticize. Some create.

Are you a "MOST" or a "SOME"?

Scott Hodge

Don't just get through the day. Get FROM the day learn from it. Let the day teach you, show you, provide you with something of value.

Grave of the original 103 Pilgrims that came on the Mayflower reads- “Reader! History records no nobler venture for faith and freedom than that of this Pilgrim band. In weariness and painfulness, in watching often in hunger and cold, they laid the foundations of a state wherein every man through countless ages, should have liberty to worship God in his own way. May their example inspire thee to do thy part in perpetuating and spreading the lofty ideals of our republic throughout the world.”

If the devil can't get in front of you and stop you - he'll get behind you and push you too fast. Stress is a destroyer. Watch your pace- Brady Boyd

When we are at our wits end for an answer then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own- Karl Barth

Why would we need the comforter in our lives if we are already comfortable- Francis Chan

You need yeast and flour to make bread. Both are necessary. says, "work out your salvation for it is God who works in you". Yes It is God who works in you and yes there is work for you to do. Yes the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And yes you do the work- Francis Chan

What the soul is to the body the Holy Spirit is to the body of Christ- Augustine

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want to live my life so that if the Holy Spirit doesn't come through I am screwed- Francis Chan

As a minister, everybody can be a jerk but me

Pastoring is like trying to put a tupperware lid on

There’s a big difference between trust and understanding. They say trust is what we need when we don’t have understanding. I’m also asking you to trust that one day faith will win over doubt, that light will win over darkness, love will win over hate, and all things will one day be redeemed. I’m asking you, right in the middle of your pain, to trust this process that is going on in your life- Pete Wilson

The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more - Pei Wei fortune cookie

If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody- Mark Crow

Plans are nothing. Planning is everything- Dwight Eisenhower

Before I ever get on the ring, I have already won or lost. The real fight is somewhere far away from witnesses, behind the line, in the gym, out on the road, long before I dance under the light- Muhammad Ali

Nothing is impossible because even in the word itself it says, "I'm possible"- Audrey Hepburn

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd- R. S. Donnell

Isn't it strange that princes and kings

And clowns that caper in sawdust rings

And common folk like you and me

Are the builders of eternity.

To each is given a bag of tools,

A shapeless mass and a book of rules;

And each must make, ere time is flown,

A stumbling-block or a stepping-stone.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes- Thoman Huxley

A clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change you die- Leonard Sweet

Money can buy a house but not home .

Money can buy food but not appetite .

Money can buy a bed but not sleep .

Money can buy a book but not knowledge .

Money can buy a clock but not time .

Money can buy medicine but not health .

Money can buy position but not respect .

Money can buy blood but not life .

Money can buy sex but not love .

Money can buy insurance but not safety .

Statements are hanging on the wall, while systems are happening down the hall- Andy Stanley

At age 20 we worry about what others think of us. At 40 we don't care what they think of us. At 60 we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

God clarifies in the midst of your obedience not beforehand.

Whether you think you can or think you can't you're right- Henry Ford.

Mother Teresa- One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody

Selfishness is the only real atheism, unselfishness, the only real religion- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live- Oscar Wilde

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up- Oscar Wilde

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? Your spare tire sits in the trunk until you need it but your steering wheel sets the course for your life everyday- Corrie Tin Boom

Thou shall not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shall not be a bystander. From the Holocaust museum

When your memories exceed your dreams the end is near, Don't be an expert on the past

The early church had multiple leadership over one congregation but within the first 100 years they switched to one leader over multiple congregations... Hence the bishop- Glen Kaiser

We all want friends and we all want disciples and sometimes that's why we don't have either- Glen Kaiser

The conversation is the relationship. When the conversation is gone so is the relationship- Glen Kaiser

Champions focus on what they are going too not what they are going through

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less- Ed Stetzer

A growing number of people are leaving the institutional church for a reason. They are not leaving because they have lost faith. They are leaving the church to preserve their faith- Reggie McNeil

Sometimes what we call a trial, God calls a tryout- Preston Morrison

God gave us Ten Commandments, and man has added 50,000 because we don’t keep His ten- Ronald Reagan

Credibility is the currency of leadership- Rick Warren

Simon Cowell told a guy on American Idol, "if you're uncomfortable up front then everyone watching you is uncomfortable"

When did the meeting become the point- Reggie McNeil

To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world- Jeanne Mayo

If you think you've got God figured out, you will never worship Him- Brady Boyd

Youth pastors are like supplements. They don’t do any good unless the parents reinforce it- Ryan Summers

Everything communicates- Brad Abare

Depression is the condition of the absence of achievable goals.

Too many people are more interested in managing impressions instead of making improvements.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going- Jeanne Mayo

Whatever you starve dies and whatever you feed grows- Herbert Cooper

Don't show off or show out, show up- Ernie Eidson (glorify God with your life)

Why is it that so many church leaders would rather lead through imitation (becoming just like someone else) rather than revelation (listening to God and then doing what He says?)- Perry Noble

You can't make the weak man strong by making the strong man weak -Abraham Lincoln

A good associate lives in today so their boss can live in tomorrow

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of others.--Robert A. Heinlein

Success is never permanent, & failure is never final.-Mike Ditka

We trust Him with eternity but we want to be in charge until we get there"-Rick DuBose

You're only as free as your secrets

The church has no future unless it's dreams are bigger than it's memories.

Friendship becomes the paved road that the Holy Spirit most travels." -Jeanne Mayo

Attitudes are habits of thinking- Larry Johnson

Everybody fails, but you're not a failure until you blame someone else." - Tim Yokely

The world is not interested in the storms you have encountered, but did you reach the port- Larry Fitzgerald

Too many itch for something they are too lazy to scratch for Matt Knisley

If you see injustice, STAND UP

If something needs to be said, SPEAK UP

If you make an appointment, SHOW UP

If you make a mistake, FESS UP

If you’re overstepping, BACK UP

If you get behind, CATCH UP

If they knock you down, GET UP

If you’re out of line, STRAIGHTEN UP

When your boss instructs, KEEP UP

When your elders speak, LISTEN UP

When your teachers teach, SIT UP

When your preachers preach, WAKE UP

When your country calls, MAN UP

Ladies too... WOMAN UP

When the fight is over, MAKE UP

If you’re being hard, EASE UP

If your heart is closed, OPEN UP

If you want to buy something, SAVE UP--

It’s not an entitlement, so SHUT UP!

If you make a mess, CLEAN IT UP

If you drop trash, PICK IT UP

If a car is waiting for you to

walk across the street, SPEED IT UP

If you’re cold busted, GIVE IT UP

If people fall down, HELP THEM UP--

Not the government, YOU STEP UP

If idiots start fighting, BREAK IT UP

If the music is wholesome, TURN IT UP

If the message is poisonous, THROW IT UP

If your words are vulgar, CLAM IT UP

If your words encourage, KEEP IT UP

If your pants are baggy, PULL THEM UP

If the belt’s too loose, CINCH IT UP

If your fly is down, ZIP IT UP

If you’re dressed half naked, COVER IT UP

If you can’t afford stuff, PASS IT UP--

No “bailouts” folks, PONY UP

If you made a promise, you BACK IT UP

And you can take your whining and PACK IT UP

It’s called personal responsibility, so TAKE IT UP

This country was founded on it, you can LOOK IT UP

It’s the American way people, so TURN IT UP

Because when life gets boring, you SHAKE IT UP

When life is good, you SOAK IT UP

When life’s unfair, you SUCK IT UP

When life is funny, you can YUCK IT UP

When life is sad, just LOOK STRAIGHT UP

And life’s too short people, so LIVE IT UP!

Kimberly Alyn- Up Time

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle- Shaquille O'Neal

Management is more necessary at non-profits because they don't have the Discipline of the bottom line- Peter Drucker

Pray, and let God worry — Martin Luther

in the Spring of 2006 Jerry Rice was trying to make the Denver Broncos roster. Andre Johnson asked him, "How do you keep playing, Jerry? I mean, what keeps you going?". Rice replied, "It's one little thing really: I don't mind being coached".

Famous last words: when the U.S. federal income tax was signed into law on Oct 3, 1913, a senator speaking in opposition stated, "If we allow this 1 percent foot in the door, at some future date it might rise to 5 percent!"

Imagine all the obstacles a person might have to overcome if he were to walk from New York City to San Francisco. One man who accomplished this rare achievement mentioned a rather surprising difficulty when asked to tell of his biggest hurdle. He said that the toughest part of the trip wasn't traversing the steep slopes of the mountains or crossing hot, dry, barren stretches of desert. Instead, he said, "The thing that came the closest to defeating me was the sand in my shoes

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C. S. Lewis

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Pat Riley

The problem with the church is that we love each too little and like each other too much- Thomas Bandy

Sometimes I'm convinced that people actually have gone to school and gotten a degree in missing the point- Carlos Whitaker

"A reputation broken might be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was." - Joseph Hall

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money

If your absence is not noticed, then your presence probably wouldn't make a difference

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. — Muhammad Ali

Sin will never keep God from you, but it will keep you from God- Dean Galyen

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy - Thomas Jefferson

"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it's not the gospel you believe, but yourself. - Augustine

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” -Adolf Hitler

Obama devotees were victims of their own belief in political magic- wall street journal

In New Jersey there is a museum to the United States Lifesaving Service, the forerunner of the Coast Guard. Over the door of the building is their motto, "You have to go out, but you don't have to come back"

Insecurity creates a performance trap that turns people into performance addicts- Robert McGee

failing to empower others with responsibilities guarantees you will limit the potential for effective ministry- Kent Ingle

the truth will always be considered hate by those who hate the truth

distractions are doing a great job at something that doesn't matter- steve furtic

Don't let what's wrong with you cause you to forget what's right with God- Steve Wynn

"Christianity began as a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. When it went to Athens, it became a philosophy. When it went to Rome, it became an organization. When it went to Europe, it became a culture. When it came to America, it became a business

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings- Helen Keller

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence- Henri Frederic Amiel

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out- Russian proverb

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Gandhi

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it- Albert Einstein

Divert daily, withdraw monthly, abandon annually- Rick Warren

The church should be full of unbelievers, new believers and believers who serve - Ed Young

Creativity is being consistently inconsistent- Ed Young

Its not the names they call you, it's the name you answer to that counts - Phil Cooke

You're approval doesn't come from applause, you friends your spouse or your boss but from the prayer closet with God- Pat Schatzline

Missions means loving people so much they are forced to ask why- Phil Cooke

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching- St. Francis of Assisi

What is sin? Being out of alignment with my values- Barack Obama

You cannot be Christlike if you are not relational- Jim McNabb

Resentment is allowing someone to live rent free in your mind- Jeanne Mayo

J.S. Bach said, "All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hub-bub." He headed his compositions: "J.J." "Jesus Juva" which means "Jesus help me." He ended them "S.D.G." "Soli Dei gratia" which means "To God alone the praise."

Martin Luther said, "The devil takes flight at the sound of music, just as he does at the words of theology, and for this reason the prophets always combined theology and music, the teaching of truth and the chanting of Psalms and hymns."

Karl Marx was a German political theorist and revolutionary who has been credited as the founder of communism. After studying human nature, he concluded, “Man is incurably religious.” He also said, “Religion is the opium of the masses”

A leader is a dealer in hope- Napoleon Bonaparte

Denominations are the corpses of what once was a great revival

The irony of commitment is that it is deeply liberating- in work, in love, in play. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life- Anne Morriss

One half of knowing what you want, is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

A saint is someone whos life makes it easier to believe in God

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure of nothing- Helen Keller

A leader is a person who has the ability to get others to do what they don’t want to do and like it- Harry Truman

Anthony DeMello saw a starving child in shivering cold and angrily asked God, “How could you allow such suffering? Why don’t you do something?” He heard God speak back to him and say, “I did do something, I made you.”

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be- Socrates

In life there is one sin which can be said to be the basis of all others; and that is forgetting that we are creatures and that God is creator.

To everyone it is sometimes given to mount up with wings as eagles; in the moment of great effort everyone can run and not be weary; but the greatest gift of all is to walk and not to faint- William Barclay

In Happy moments, PRAISE GOD, in Difficult moments, SEEK GOD, in Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD, in Painful moments, TRUST GOD, and in Every moment, THANK GOD- Rick Warren

Consensus is the absence of leadership- Margaret Thatcher

The early church was so powerful that they didn't argue with people. It was a demonstration of the Spirits power. We are so powerless we argue with people- Brady Boyd

One of the greatest dangers in ministry is that you can learn how to do it- Chuck Swindoll

Samson embraced the one and shunned the other. He sought the Spirit so that he might be a hero, but never so that he might be a saint- Mark Buchanan

The only way from here to there is long obedience in the same direction- Tracy Bizinet

The Christian is not a tourist, who returns each night to the place from which he starts; he is a pilgrim who is forever on the way- William Barclay

Crooked as a do-it-yourself haircut

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate, relationships and have opted for power and control instead.

It aint about how hard you can hit, but if you can take a hit and keep going- Rocky Balboa

Goals are dreams with deadlines- Diana Scharf

No one can buy experience. That is something for which only the years can pay- Barclay

Excellence is no longer about performance but about participation- Leonard Sweet

What I kept, I lost; what I gave I have

To whom little is not enough, nothing is enough. Add not to a man's possessions but take away from his desires- Epicurius, Greek philosopher

"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."

Bobby Bowden / Florida State

After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team: "All those who need showers, take them." John McKay / USC

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was St Francis of Assisi who, while hoeing his garden, was asked what he would do if he were to suddenly learn that he was to die at sunset. He said, "I would finish hoeing my garden."

Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated- George Bernard Shaw

When you face the sun, shadows fall behind you, but when you turn your back on the sun your shadow is in front of you.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life- Robert Louis Stevenson

Artists cannot depict Him; poets can not express Him; orators cannot describe Him; culture cannot appraise Him; bankers cannot value Him; earth cannot equal Him; heaven cannot match Him and angels cannot compare with Him- Charles J. Rolls

The stoics said that contentment does not consist in possessing much, but in wanting little, “If you want to make a man happy, add not to his possessions but take away from his desires.”

Bill Hybels summarized sublime truths of prayer in this short outline.

If the request is wrong, God says: NO.

If the timing is wrong, God says: SLOW.

If you are wrong, God says: GROW.

But if the request is right, the timing is right, and you are right, God says: GO.

Spare the rod and spoil the child- that is true, but beside the rod keep an apple to give him when he has done well- Martin Luther

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity- Richard Childress

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it- William Penn

Winners are fighters that refuse to quit- Jim McNabb

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable- CS Lewis

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand, God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain- CS Lewis

The thing I have to work on in myself is the issue of belief…satan, who I believe exists as much as I believe Jesus exists, wants us to believe meaningless things for meaningless reasons. Can you imagine if Christians actually believed God was trying to rescue us from the pit of our own self-addiction? Can you imagine? Can you imagine what Americans would do if they understood over half the world was living in poverty? Do you think they would change the way they live, the products they purchase, and the politicians we elect? If we believed the right things, the true things, there wouldn’t be very many problems on earth. But the problem with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn’t like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them- Donald Miller

Pride says I'm more important than you. Selfishness says now I'm going to show you. Humility says you're more important than me. Servanthood says now I'm going to show you.

God knows nothing of solitary religion. No man ever went to heaven alone- John Wesley

Jesus promised his disciples three things- that they would be absurdly happy, completely fearless, and in constant trouble- F.R. Maltby

There is just enough room in the world for all the people in it, but there is no room for the fences which separate them- Father Taylor of Boston

Tired of being on the heights I deliberately went to the depths in search for new sensations. I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me and passed on. I forgot that every little action of each day makes or unmakes character- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

The flesh is anything in us that gives sin its chance- William Barclay

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another- Swift

We can’t control what happens to us, but we can honor God with our reactions- Parvin

Our definition of safety is not God’s- Parvin

Only the hopeful have a chance of being disappointed. You have to make friends with frustration - Jeff Lucas

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength I will dare and dare and dare until I die- Joan of Arc

If you uncover it God will cover it- Ed Young

Because a thing was always done, it is right, and because a thing was never done, it is wrong. We must be careful not to worship the stages instead of the goal, not to cling to the second-best while the best is waiting- William Barclay.

I consider myself a spiritual person... I believe in an idea of God, although it’s my own personal ideal. I find most religions interesting, and I’ve been to every king of denomination: Catholic, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist. I’ve taken bits from everything and customized it. Sarah Michelle Geller, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

He cut the cables and gave us a glimpse of the blue waters- students speaking of their teacher A.B. Bruce

When John Knox rebuked Queen Mary for her proposed marriage to Don Carlos at first she tried anger and outrage and then she tried tears in abundance. Knox said- I never delighted in the weeping of any of God's creatures. I can scarely well abide in the tears of my own boys whom my own hand correcteth, much less can I rejoice in your majesty's weeping. But I must sustain, albeit unwillingly, your majesty's tears rather than I dare hurt my conscience, or betray my commonwealth through my silence.

All sunshine makes a desert- Arabian Proverb

Lightfoot of Durham said of Arthur F. Sim, one of his students, “Let him go where he will, his face will be a sermon in itself.”

The truth hurts but denials what will kill you- August Burns Red

We don't confess our sins to reveal our sins, we confess to accept responsibility for them.

If you simply want a crowd, the "seeker sensitive" model produces results. If you want solid, sincere, mature followers of Christ, it's a bust. We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between services, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own. – Bill Hybels

The church creates programs/activities. People participate in these activities. The outcome is spiritual maturity. In a moment of stinging honesty Hawkins says, "I know it might sound crazy but that's how we do it in churches. We measure levels of participation."- Greg Hawkins, Willow Creek evaluation

Compromise is the language of the devil- Eric Liddell (chariots of fire)

I have never been hurt by something I did not say- Calvin Coolidge

Augustine said the whole Christian ethic could be summed up in this, “Love god and do what you like”

Pride is the only disease that makes everyone sick but the one who has it.

I believe the Bible is inspired because it finds me- Coleridge

I will not allow any man to make me lower myself by hating him- Booker Washington.

The only real way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend- William Barclay

You can become so preoccupied with who you aren't that you forget who you are- Corie Tin Boom

Obedience is not a season it's a lifestyle- Bryan Jarrett

If you don't make up your mind then your unmade mind will unmake you- Stanley Jones

If you don’t let it die, it won’t let you live- Perry Noble

I am old and my memory is fading but there are two things I never forget. I am a great sinner and Jesus Christ is a great Savior- William Jay

We are a generation that listens with its eyes and hears with its feelings

Through prayer we guard our chastity, control our temper and rid ourselves of vanity. It makes us forget injuries, overcome envy, defeats injustice and makes amends for sin. Through prayer we obtain physical well-being, a happy home, and a strong, well-ordered society... Prayer is the seal of virginity and a pledge of faithfulness in marriage. It shields the wayfarer, protects the sleeper and gives courage to those who keep vigil... It will refresh you when you are weary and comfort you when you are sorrowful. Prayer is the delight of the joyful as well as the solace of the afflicted... Prayer is intimacy with God and contemplation of the invisible.... Prayer is the enjoyment of things present and the substance of the things to come. -Gregory of Nyssa

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better to be alone than in bad company- George Washington

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act- George Orwell

Me, now, how and wow guides our lives. Quick easy fixes for everything- Rick McKinley

I never give up. If you give me enough time, I will win- Chuck Liddell

We want to be the textbook for character, but don't get me wrong, it can't come at the expense of winning- Wayne Huizenga, owner Miami Dolphins

You don't have to always be certain, but you must always be clear- Andy Stanley

You will only become what you are becoming right now- Ron McManus

Antonio Stradivari, the great violin maker said- If my hand slacked, I should rob God

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately- Andy Stanley

Today you will meet all kinds of unpleasant people; they will hurt you, and injure you, and insult you; but you cannot live like that; you know better, for you are a man in whom the spirit of God dwells- Marcua Aurelius, Roman Emperor

A man one commented to David Livingstone about what a sacrifice he had made thinking of his time in Africa, his sorrow, how he had lost his wife, and his poor health. Livingstone replied to the man, "Sacrifices? I never made a sacrifice in all my life."

The rich help the poor in this world, but the poor help the rich in the world to come- old Rabbinical saying

The true gospel is a call to self-denial, not a call to self-fufillment- Jim McNabb

Fungus and mold only grow in the dark

Every professional golfer should hold a dollar between their fingers each night and say a quarter of this is from Arnie- Lee Trevino

It was said if John Knox as his body was being lowered into the grave, ''Here lies one who feared God so much that he never feared the face of man

Your voice tone is the window on your attitude - Jeanne Mayo

The years will teach you what the days will never know- Emerson

There is no such thing as unanswered prayer. The answer given may not be the answer we desired or expected, but even when it is a refusal it is the answer of the love and wisdom of God- William Barclay

Dr. Johnson after touring a great castle and all its treasures remarked grimly, "These are the things which make it difficult to die".

Discipline is doing what you ought to do so you can do what you want to do- Ed Young

No man ever went to heaven alone; he must either find friends or make them- John Wesley

A great Spanish Saint prayed for his people, "May God deny you peace and give you glory"

A preacher sees people at their best, A lawyer sees people at their worst, A doctor sees people as they are.

No individual has any right to come into this world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.- George Washington Carver

What you affirm gets repeated- Jeanne Mayo

The church of Jesus Christ is the only organization that exist for the benefit of its non-members- Archbishop William Temple

Criticism is something you can avoid easily- by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing- Aristotle

Sacrifice is not sacrifice unless it's sacrifice

My ministry will never grow if my eyes are dry

People who are spiritually mature are comfortable with there uncomfortableness- Ed Young

Customer service costs nothing but attention

The real thing is always served raw- Earl Creps

Heaven is gonna be cheap at any price- Chresten Tomlin

"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."- Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress." - Ronald Reagan

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." -Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan

If you want to be remembered after your dead write something worth reading or do things worth writing- Ben Franklin

At the end of our lives we will be judged on our potential and motives

Our size will not shape our significance-our budget will not hinder our dream-our past will not determine our future- we have to redefine our reality- before its incredible, its impossible

God doesn't ask us to give Him what we do not have, He always asks us to give Him what we want to keep.

If you don't love it, God doesn't want it- Ricky Jiminez

We can not live wrong and die right- Keith Elder

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation means moving together for the mutual advantage- John Maxwell

In the end it's not the words of our enemies we will remember but the silence of our friends- Martin Luther

If your too big to preach to a few your to small to preach to the many- Mark Rutland

The idolization of youth has caused an abbreviated generation with a lack of history- Mark Rutland

Ambition is the last refuge of failure- Oscar Wilde

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

On October 29, 1941, United Kingdom (Great Britain) Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Harrow School to hear the traditional songs he had sung there as a youth, as well as to speak to the students. This became one of his most quoted speeches, due to distortions that evolved about what he actually said. The myth is that Churchill stood before the students and said, "Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up." Then he sat down. In reality, he made a complete speech that included words similar to what are often quoted

Dr. Paul Cameron's book, The Homosexual Life-Span

Looked at obituaries in homosexual journals of 4,109 homosexuals. Here's what he found:

Homosexuals have 20x the suicide rate

Murdered 83x more often than the average American

The average death of a male homosexual w/Aids - 36 yrs. old.

The average death of a male homosexual w/o Aids - 43 yrs. old

The average death of an American male - 75 yrs. old

“Homosexuality plays out as the most deadly lifestyle. It is far worse than smoking or alcohol abuse or working in a uranium mine.” - quote from the book

Ravi Zacharias- Can man live without God

Rich brothers- compared to his brother he's a saint

University means unity in diversity- trinity (unity, community, diversity)

Ex: worship,

Epluribus Unum- out of the many one

Jacob- bless me, what is your name

Existentialist- lives for moment

Utopianist- lives for future

Traditionalist- lives for past

Lords supper covers all

Nader? The kingdom of God in America "What we want is a God without wrath to send man without sin into a kingdom without justice through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross"

Nothing that religion does is more important than equipping us to endure lifes passages and find meaning in sorrow and loss

Bob Miley's daughter Robin said, "He showed me what God looked like".

Steve Turner- We today believe in Marx, Freud and Darwin. We believe that everything is ok as long as you don't hurt anyone to the best of your definition of hurt and to the best of your definition of knowledge. We believe in sex before, during and after marriage. We believe in the therapy of sin. We believe that taboos are taboo. We believe that everything is getting better despite evidence to the contrary. The evidence must be investigated and you can prove anything with evidence. We believe there is something in horoscopes, UFO's and bent spoons, that Jesus was a good man just like Mohammad, Buddha and ourselves. He was a good teacher with good morals, although we think His good morals were really bad. We believe that all religions are basically the same, at least the ones that we read were. They all believe in love and goodness, they only defer on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God and salvation. We believe that after death comes the nothing, because when you ask the dead what happens, they say nothing. If death is not the end and the dead have lied, then it's compulsory heaven for all, except of course for Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan. We believe in Masters and Johnson, what's selected is average, what's average is normal and what's normal is good. We believe in total disarmament. We believe there are direct links between war and bloodshed. We believe the Americans should beat their guns into tractors and the Russians would be sure to follow. We believe that man is essentially good it's only his behavior that lets him down. This is the fault of society, society is the fault of conditions and conditions are the fault of society. We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him and reality will adapt accordingly, the universe will readjust, history will alter. We believe that there is no absolute truth except the truth that there is no absolute truth. We believe in the rejection of creeds and the flowering of individual thought. If chance be the father of all flesh, then disaster is his rainbow in the sky and when you hear a state of emergency, sniper kill, youth's gone looting, troops on rampage, bomb blasts school, it's but the sound of man worshipping his maker.

The idea that we can somehow live in Eden with each voice determining what is right and what is wrong- Ravi Zacharias

Maxwell on vision- See it clearly, show it creatively, and say it consistently.

The teacher never talks when he gives a test

Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer. Merrit Malloy, Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old.

We're here not because someone died, but because someone lived" -Phil Taylor

The whole of Christianity is that God is God and I am not- Winkie Pratney

"It's not who you think you are that holds you back, it's who you think you are not"- John Maxwell.

"Most people die with their song still inside of them"- Oliver Wendall Holmes.

The richest soil in the world is not oil fields or diamond and gold mines. It's the cemeteries of the world full of songs never written, art never painted, inventions never designed, stories never told. They are full of potential that is still potential.

Delayed obedience is still disobedience- Roger Kuykendall

Excuses are testimonies of failure- Roger Kuykendall

Basketball would be pretty silly without goals! Everybody would just be running around dribbling. Nobody shoots 100% but they keep shooting to score.

Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving- Peter Marshall

The supreme tragedy of most people is that they want so little they are satisfied with almost nothing- Charles Allen

An hour in prayer gives the devil a scare- Dick Eastman

An optimist sees opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees calamity in every opportunity.

Jack Higgins was a famous author who wrote many bestsellers, including “The Eagle Has Landed” in 1975 which sold over fifty million copies. He’s sold over 250 million book, been translated into 55 different languages and had 11 book turned into movies. Once he was asked what he would like to have known as a boy. His answer: "That when you get to the top, there's nothing there."

I want our church to have Evolution rather than revolution. A revolution is always messy and someone dies- Allen Poldson

If we ever removed the Bible from our schools as our primary text book, our schools will be filled with violence- Fisher Ames- author of the first amendment

If we ever remove religion from our education, we will be left with a nation of immorality- George Washington

My death is not my own, but yours, and it's significance depends on what you do with it.- chanted in Hebrew at a service for fallen soldiers

If a man is too busy to worship twice on Sunday and once on Wednesday, then he has more business than God intended him to have- J.C. Penney

Show me a man who is thoroughly satisfied and I'll show you a failure- Thomas Edison

If I falter, push me on. If I stumble, pick me up. If I retreat, shoot me- Motto of the French Foreign Legion

You don't have to understand, to be understanding- Regan Frizelle

When your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep becomes your downfall- Edgerrin James

God wants to turn your rut into a route- Rick Lorimer

Creativity is taking the ordinary and making it original- Nate Adams

I've got a testimony because I passed the test- Mark Purkey

Don't ask why me, instead ask what now.

I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first- George Rogers, New Orleans Saints Running back

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein- Football commentator Joe Theismann 1996

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes- Senior basketball player at Kentucky

You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle- Bill Peterson- Florida State football coach

I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to- Shaquille O'Neal when asked if he visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece

My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or and aunt- Jim Valvano on why he was nervous at practice

Because she's too ugly to kiss goodbye- Bum Phillips when asked by Bob Costas on why he took his wife on team road trips

Gluttony is an appetite suppressant for the things of God- Cornelius Plantinga

How do you know if you are a servant? By how you act when you're treated like one- Howard Hendricks

Your future needs you to get victory over your past- Ron Rhoads

Don't say "if only" but "next time"- Richard Exley

Most of us pray problem centered prayers instead of God centered prayers- Richard Exley

Self discipline is to achieve things you want by doing things you don't want to do- Pastor McNabb

If you can't lead yourself you can't lead others- Pastor McNabb

The tragedy of disbelieving in God is not that you end up believing in nothing, but that you end up believing in anything- GK Chesterton

These eyes, the windows of the soul distort the heavens and goads you to believe a lie when you see with and not through the eyes- William Blake

The ultimate form of meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain, but weary of pleasure- GK Chesterton

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts - John Wooden

There are two things people hate, success and failure- Tommy Barnett

Inspiration without education leads to frustration- Tommy Barnett

If your praise doesn't mean anything to you, it doesn't mean anything to God either- Sam Rijfkogel

The whole purpose of the whole church is to take the whole gospel to the whole world- Dwain Jones

The problem with the gene pool, is there is no lifeguard

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach of the arm

I used to ask God, "Why did I have to go through all I had to go through to get where I am? Why couldn't I have been one of those people who had better times growing up?" But I think I know the answer now. Growing up that poor, you appreciate certain things a lot more than the normal person. That's why I got two sayings that come up on my computer whenever I turn it on. One is, "Remember what it took to get where you're at." The other is, "Adversity causes some people to break; it causes some others to break records- Edgerrin James, running back for the Indianapolis Colts, ESPN magazine, Sept 4, 2000

God's plan is not to improve you but to remove you- Richard Crisco

Before you whip the people you must weep for the people- Richard Crisco

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by people- Steve Hill

You don't learn about God from emotions, but from devotions- Roosevelt Hunter

If you don't see it before you see it, you'll never see it

Salvation is like riding a bicycle. When you stop you fall over- Oral Roberts

We're not only accountable for what we've heard, but also what we would have heard if we were paying attention- Adrian Rogers

Albert Einstein

I'm not smarter, I think I just stay with the problem longer

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school

If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

The saints are more to blame for not having revival than the sinners are for not being saved- Charles Finney

You don't need to persuade God, you need to permit God- Jimmy Davis

Safe Sex? Sex isn't suppose to be dangerous

Find your own Calcutta and die- Mother Teresa was asked, what do I need to do to be a history maker

You're all dead men, now go out and prove it- Kruschev addressing Communist party members

Show me your friends and I'll show you your future

The devil knows that if he can't take you to hell then he'll give you hell on earth

The story of Jonah teaches us that a sleeping preacher endangers the lives of others

Prove me wrong by the word and I will recant. But if you cannot prove me wrong by the word then I stand sure, my conscience is bound by the word of God- Martin Luther

The two biggest indicators of who you are serving are money and time

The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.

Fire means "rapid oxidation" which is the opposite of rust.

Communism can never succeed, unless Christianity fails- Billy Graham

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it- Napoleon

We spend more time getting people to commit to marriage than we do to commit their lives to Jesus- Leonard Ravenhill

When will we get serious about getting serious about the most serious thing in the world- Leonard Ravenhill

If you are a true believer the hardest thing for you to do is sin- Leonard Ravenhill

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those dead to sin and those dead in sin- Leonard Ravenhill

If Samson had got on his knees he wouldn't have gotten on Delilah's knees- Leonard Ravenhill

All gave some, some gave all- Words on a war memorial in California

Jesus said I left my place to come to your place to take your place so you could come to my place

Procrastination is the grave that opportunities are buried in

Aim at heaven and you get the earth thrown in, aim at the earth and get neither

In order to hit a moving target you have to be sitting still- Steve Hill

The reason the book of Acts was written was because they acted- Smith Wigglesworth

If we really believe the gospel we can't afford to live like everybody else- Dwain Jones

Help me to live simply so that others may simply live- Dwain Jones

If the map stops here, then I'm moving off the map- Napoleon

God fishes with a net instead of a hook because He is not picky at what He catches.

A group of tourists visiting a picturesque village saw an old man sitting by a fence and asked, "Were any great men born in this town," the old man replied, "no, only babies."

The secret of praying is praying in secret- Leonard Ravenhill

I only regret the times that I was too nice- the words written on Anton LaVey's tombstone

Are the things you're living for worth Christ dying for- the words written on Leonard Ravenhill's tombstone

Rejection doesn't mean no, it means keep coming I'm not convinced your real yet.

Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Without the way there is no going, without the truth there is no knowing, without the life there is no living

We've allowed tolerance for diversity to lead to perversity- Josh McDowell

Our culture says that tolerance is the highest virtue and that anything that divides(Christianity) is evil. Christians are bigots because they believe they are the only way- Josh McDowell

You'll never talk to your friends about God until you talk to God about your friends- Josh McDowell

Many churches are trying to meet felt needs instead of making needs felt- Josh McDowell

If you love me you'll let me is not unconditional love

If you will spend time with your children now they'll spend time with you later- Josh McDowell

I heard and I forgot, I saw and I remembered, I did it and I understand

Responsibility is our response to God's ability

Moses left Israel Joshua but Joshua left Israel a vacancy- John Maxwell

Following the path of least resistance is what makes men and rivers crooked

It's when the fish opens he mouth that he gets caught

Even a fly doesn't get a slap on the back until he starts to work

Football is 20 guys in desperate need of rest, being watched by 20,000 in desperate need of exercise.

Some people are like blisters, they only pop up when the work is done

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary

How well the parents obey their children- The Duke of Windsor when asked what impressed him the most about his visit to America.

Don't sell your tomorrow to pay for your today- Danny Duvall

Many people sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate

David left the battleground and went to the playground - Roosevelt Hunter

The past is a point of reference, not a place of residence- Sam Rijfkogel

Next level living is only attained by present level abandonment- Sam Rijfkogel

Giving doesn't count until love motivates it and love doesn't count until giving demonstrates it- Dwain Jones

I don't want your eleven best players, I want your best eleven- Knute Rockney

It's not wrong to have things, it's wrong for things to have you

People don't die from scars, they die from open wounds- Jim McNabb

There are no winners or losers, only choosers

"If it feels good then it's Ok" justifies rape- Josh McDowell

We succeeded because our parents expected, modeled and facilitated our progress- Chris Brewster

Should the Bible be a part of a public school classroom? Fisher Ames lived in Massachusetts from 1758 to 1808. He was a publicist and a statesman, as well as a judge and a Massachusetts representative to the Federal Congress between the years of 1791 and 1797. He is known as the primary author of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution - the amendment most often quoted today as a reason to ban religious expression from public life and, in particular, public schools.

On September 20, 1789, Fisher Ames was quoted in Paladian Magazine, giving this view of American education: "We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. "We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book."

Your laws ignore our deepest needs, Your words are empty air,

You've stripped away our heritage, You've outlawed simple prayer,

Now gunshots fill our classrooms, And precious children die,

You seek for answers everywhere, And ask the question, "Why?"

You regulate restrictive laws, Through legislative creed,

And yet you fail to understand, That God is what we need!

A poem Darrell Scott read to congress

His preaching was like the cross-eyed discus thrower- he won't set any records, but he'll keep you alert

Be Fishers of Men...You catch 'em, He'll Clean 'em.

Coincidence is when God performs a miracle and chooses to remain anonymous.

Forbidden fruits create many jams.

Give God what's right, not what's left!

Give Satan an inch and he'll be a ruler.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

God grades on the cross, not the curve.

He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else

Worry is the darkroom in which "negatives" are developed

Sayings written on tombstones:

Sacred to the memory of Jared Bates. Who died Aug the 6th, 1800. His widow, aged 24 lives at 7 elm street has every qualification for a good wife and yearns to be comforted- Lincoln, Maine

Here lies the body of our Anna, done to death by a banana. It wasn't the fruit that laid her low, but the skin of the thing that made her go- Enosburg, Vermont

Here lies Lester Moore, four slugs from a 44, no Les, No more- Tombstone, Arizona

Played 5 aces, now playing the harp- Boot Hill Cemetery, Kansas

Here lie the bones of Nancy Jones. A life lived with no terrors, she lived an old maid and died an old maid, no hits, no runs, no errors

My mother wants grandchildren, so I said, "Mom, go for it!"- Sue Murphy

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific- Lily Tomlin

I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget- Michael McShane

The TV has gone from infancy to adultery

A worried Christian is a contradiction

The will of God will never lead you where the grace of God can't keep you.

Real preaching comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable

If you are ever robbed of virtue, you'll find it was an inside job

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist, 1911

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war- Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, August 1, 1934

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home- Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977

Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions… Radio make surprise impossible- Josephus Daniles former US secretary of the navy, Oct 16, 1922

Computer in the future may perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons- Popular Mechanics, 1949

He's the best orator who can change men's ears into eyes.

Action without vision is misery. Vision without action is visionary. Vision and action is a missionary.

Insanity is to do what we've always done and expect a different result.

All true greatness is unknown- Sir Walter Scott

Not everyone can do great things, but everyone can do things with great love- Mother Teresa

"Wertz hits it. A solid sound. I learned a lot from the sound of the ball on the bat. Always did. I could tell from the sound whether to come in or go back. This time I'm going back, a long way back, but there is never any doubt in my mind. I am going to catch this ball. I turn and run for the bleachers. But I got it. Maybe you didn't know that, but I knew it. Soon as it got hit, I knew I'd catch this ball.

"But that wasn't the problem. The problem was Larry Doby on second base. On a deep fly to center field at the Polo Grounds, a runner could score all the way from second. I've done that myself and more than once. So if I make the catch, which I will, and Larry scores from second, they still get the run that puts them ahead. "All the time I'm running back, I'm thinking, 'Willie, you've got to get this ball back to the infield.' "I run fifty or seventy-five yards--right to the warning track--and I take the ball a little toward my left shoulder. Suppose I stop and turn and throw. I will get nothing on the ball. No momentum going into my throw. What I have to do is this: after I make the catch, turn. Put all my momentum into that turn. "To keep my momentum, to get it working for me, I have to turn very hard and short and throw the ball from exactly the point that I caught it. The momentum goes into my turn and up through my legs and into my throw. "That's what I did. I got my momentum and my legs into that throw. Larry Doby ran to third, but he couldn't score. Al Rosen didn't even advance from first. "All the while I was running back, I was planning how to get off that throw.

"Then some of them wrote, I made that throw by instinct." -- Willie Mays describing "the catch"

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now- Purpose driven life: Rick Warren

Bitterness is drinking poison and hoping it kills your enemy- Richard Exley

The greatness of a man's power is in the measurer of his surrender - William Booth

There is but one way to train up a child in the way he should go and that is to travel it yourself - Abraham Lincoln

You become effective by being selective - Rick Warren

Sign at Mother Teresa's home for the dying in Calcutta says, "Let us do something beautiful for God" We all have something inside of us that wants to prove to God my devotion. God's answer is always the cross.

David D'alessandros- 10 rules for career success

1. Look beyond your navel. Many people become so self-absorbed that they have an absurdly unrealistic view of how others regard them. Knowing how you come across will help you become the person you want to be- that means effective, competent, and fair.

2. Your boss is the coauthor of your brand. Your boss is the filter through which higher-up view your accomplishments and failings. Treat your relationship with your boss carefully.

3. Put your boss on the couch. Figure out whether your boss is the type to stand in your way or help your brand.

4. Learn which is the pickle fork. Know the importance of etiquette and good manners. Show you belong in the world of senior executives.

5. Kenny Rogers is right. Sometimes a work situation is hopeless and you have to, as Rogers sang, know when to fold 'em.

6. It's always show time. Big events don't make careers. Attention to mundane, everyday actions build brands and good careers.

7. Make the right enemies. Never offending anyone dilutes your brand. But make the right choices about the fights you pick.

8. Don't get swallowed by the bubble. if you reach the top, don't believe the stories about your own genius. Surround yourself with people who are honest and be willing to accept criticism.

9. The higher you fly the more you will be shot at. Success breeds criticism. Prepare to be a target and prepare for bad news - or prevent it - before it happens. Admit when you are wrong and never adopt a bunker mentality.

10. Make sure you stay a contender. It's never too late to change your brand. Be conscious every day of what kind of brand you're building, and don't let setbacks deter you.

"The danger today is the bland leading the bland." Leonard Sweet

Henry Bosch wrote- Socrates taught for forty years, Plato for fifty, Aristotle for forty, and Jesus for only three. Yet the influence of Christ's three-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by the combined 130 years of teaching from these men who were among the greatest philosophers of all antiquity. Jesus painted no pictures; yet, some of the finest paintings of Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci received their inspiration from Him. Jesus wrote no poetry; but Dante, Milton, and scores of the world's greatest poets were inspired by Him. Jesus composed no music; still Haydn, Handel, Beethoven, Bach, and Mendelssohn reached their highest perfection of melody in the hymns, symphonies and oratories they composed in His praise. Every sphere of human greatness has been enriched by this humble carpenter of Nazareth.

The Second Reformation, by William Beckham

What am I holding on to that God is in the process of changing?

Is the church we preach to on Sunday like the church we preach about on Sunday.

The pastors at most churches are overworked and unemployed. They are Overworked in a multitude of tasks that do not have the slightest labors and serious concerns of maintaining a disciplined spiritual life.

The Lord told me a second thing. “You are not growing,” He said. “You think you are, because you've gone from 200 to 600. But you're not growing- you're just getting fat.” All you have is more people of the same quality as before.”

By 312 AD the church had changed from regular home meetings and large group meetings to almost exclusively conducting meetings in special buildings. Consequently, the church became an audience! Since that time many things have differed from church to church, theological interpretation, type of worship and even clothes clergy wear. But the one winged, cathedral structure has remained constant over the past seventeen centuries of church history. While Constantine gave the ultimate stamp of approval to this one winged approach, it was not completely his fault Several trends developed during the first 300 years of church history, making the fourth century ripe for Satan's attack and Constantine's mistake.

Christianity was more and more aligned with political systems

Professional leaders were developing church structure

Spiritual power had given way to human ability and effort

Servant leadership was gradually replaced with authoritarianism

Church structure was being patterned after the world

The church was on the defensive rather than the offensive

The small group context of the church was suspect in the eyes of government

What are the characteristics of Constantine's cathedral paradigm?

People go to a building (cathedral) on a special day of the week (Sunday) and someone (a priest, or today, a pastor) does something to them (teaching, preaching, absolution or healing) or for them (a ritual or entertainment) for a price (offerings)

Satan could not have devised a more ingenious plan! First of all, he gave the church political sanction and social respectability. then he set about to neutralize the church by attacking it's small group structure. the church was thus limited in its ability to nurture new members, apply spiritual power, edify the body, train necessary leaders, deliver the gospel to the world, encounter the presence of the living Christ and walk in the gifts of the Spirit.

“Where’s Eddie? Is he sick?”

“Nope,” came the reply. “He ain’t workin’ here no more.”

“Do you have anyone in mind for the vacancy?” inquired the customer.

“Nope! Eddie didn’t leave no vacancy!”

A large percentage of church members are consumers, not producers. They are consumer Christians because the traditional church has no viable context in which to make them producers, or use them in a productive way. Eddies contract with the traditional church is to be pampered, to receive ministry and to be entertained. In exchange, he will be counted in the numbers and will give an offering from time to time to support the system. Consumer Christians represent 80% of church members who are supported and ministered to by the other 20% who produce. This means Eddie is anything but a neutral factor in the ministry of the church. In fact, he probably represents its most serious debilitating factor. Eddie is a major consumer in the church itself, requiring many producing Christians to care for his needs. Consumer Christians neutralize the productivity of the 20% of mature members who expend most of their time and energy ministering to Eddie, Mrs. Eddie and all the Little Eddies. Think about the 20% of mature, producing church members. They are capable of reaching out into the world, of modeling New Testament Christian living, of taking the church beyond the parking lot, of making a difference in the Kingdom. But they are so busy maintaining the system that supports Eddie that little time or energy is left to minister in a New Testament sense. Eddie may leave if he finds another church he feels meets more of his needs. Eddie will gravitate toward the strongest ministry pull and the most guaranteed benefits. Eddie can always find spiritual sounding reasons to justify his migration to greener pastures. “We are concerned for the spiritual welfare of our family. This new church has such a wonderful program for our children.” Or, “Their style of worship is so exciting and moving. We want to worship God like that.” Or, “I am fed by the wonderful preaching of that pastor. He is such a spiritual man of God.” Who can question Eddie's motives when he gives such spiritual-sounding reasons?

Why does the church tolerate manipulation, practically blackmail, from those members who contribute the least to the work of the church? Eddie has his hook into the one-winged church because his presence is the measure of success in one-winged church circles. Filling up the church on Sunday morning is the bottom line of institutional religion.

Lyle Schaller points out the danger of a distribution, rather than a contribution, world view in an organization. “The higher the expectations of what people can and will contribute in terms of talent, creativity, time, energy, sacrifices, of the total group and the less pronounced the internal divisiveness. That is the message of the Christian faith, the story of the great schools, the theme of the great churches, and the glue of unified societies. By contrast, raising the expectations of what people will be given invariably tends to politicize the decision-making processes, increase the stress level, and encourage divisive arguments about who is receiving a fair share and who is being cheated out of a fair share.”

The Lord's Supper changed from a common meal to a ceremony

Worship changed from participation to observation

Witness changed from relationship to salesmanship

Ministry changed from personal to almost exclusively social

Leadership changed from gifted and called servants to professionals

Growth changed from multiplication to addition

Missions changed from being to supporting missionaries

Confession changed from public before a small group to private in the confessional

Discipleship changed from on-the-job to classroom training

Fellowship changed from in-depth in community living to more surface in large meetings

Body life changed from lifestyle to membership

Gifts changed from edification to entertainment or extinction

Empowerment changed from God's power to man's ability

Buildings changed from functional to sacred meeting places

Administration changed from integrated to compartmental

Membership changed from producer to consumer

Child-care changed from parental to church responsibility

Bible study changed from doers of the Word to hearers of the Word

Evangelism changed from “go structures” to “come structures”

Questions to ask ourselves:

Can this church still be the church, beyond the church parking lot?

Does this church have any effective structure that operates as the church beyond the church property?

Must unbelievers and the hurting wait until next Sunday before the church can minister to them as His living body?

Must all these Christians now become individual “Lone Rangers” and “Spiritual Commandos” who are cut off from their support base and supply lines.

The Martha approach: Performance for Christ

Perform a service for Christ

Expect others to help do something for Christ

Make something happen for Christ

Prepare for Christ's presence or coming

Run everything smoothly for Christ

Coordinate Christ's schedule

Get busy for the Lord to the point of distraction

Visit with Christ in passing as you do your work

Complain to Christ about the service of others

Fulfill your duty even if relationships suffer

Focus most of all on what is secondary

The Mary Approach: Person of Christ

Enter into Christ's presence

Sit at Christ's feet

Look into Christ's face

Listen to Christ's voice

Receive Christ's power

Expect Christ's healing from all hurts

Feel Christ's gentle touch

Know Christ's unconditional acceptance

Rest in Christ's love

Experience Christ's freedom

Release all fear to Christ

Wash Christ's feet

Do Christ's will from an overflow of His presence

Focus first of all on what is better

Tears are anti-freeze for the soul

If sinners be damned, let them leap over our bodies. If they must perish, let them go to hell with our arms wrapped around their bodies. Let no one go there unwarned or unprayed for - Charles Spurgeon

"It is estimated that today's college graduates are exposed to more facts in one year than their grandparents were in a lifetime. According to Twigg and Oblinger (The Virtual University, 1997), the sum of all that is known is now doubling every seven years…Within the fields of science, engineering, and even business, it is estimate that much of what undergraduates learn in four to five years of college will be obsolete by the time they graduate…”

-John Ebersole, Dean, Boston University Division of Extended Education

If you're not doing what God wants you to do, then you're doing what the enemy wants you to do- Gray Nordin

What the enemy can't prevent from without he will pervert from within

Ministry doesn't mean you have to have an audience- Frank Cargill

We can live like nobody else if we are willing to live like nobody else- Dave Ramsey

When you choose a road you choose what's at the end of that road.

He died from an overdose of living

William Ward said, Criticize me and I may not like you, ignore me and I may not forgive you, encourage me and I won't forget you

Mother Teresa- You will never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have

A day off is usually followed by an off day- Ralph Harris, Sept 9, 1912 - March 1, 2004.

Your greatest strength is to know your weakness.

We're not running out of money, we're running out of time- Dwain Jones

Dennis Sprouse- Manipulation is the counterfeit of ministry

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change; courage is history's true currency. Charlton Heston

Addiction gets started by trying to regulate your pain through escapism.

Quincy Carter was asked this question about Bill Parcells in a press conference. “How much is it fear that the players have with Parcells?” Carter responded “Fear? I only fear God. We have a spiritual group of guys on our football team, and we just fear God. We don't fear Coach Parcells, but we have a high level of respect for him. The Bible talks about not fear of man but fear of God, so there's no fear, but there's a great regard and respect for him.”

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. –Theodore Roosevelt

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. –Robert K. Greenleaf

Become what you preach and then preach Christ in you- Joseph Ruggles Wilson, father of Woodrow Wilson

Preach and live is such a way as to make the Word plain and credible- John Shaw

The audience does not hear a sermon, they hear a man- Haddon Robinson

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing

Hold on to the seed in your hand and that's as big as it gets. Put it in God's hand and that's as small as it gets

Addiction starts when people try to regulate their pain through escapism

George Bullard the statistician for S. Baptist said, "The Assemblies of God is the church to lead Christianity in the 21st century".

Follow up is damage control for a bad first impression

Quitting is only a shortcut to losing

You can waste your life, spend your life or give your life.

Doug Reed- When you walk in the ocean you are in the water that touches the rest of the world. When God dips His hand in the waters of our life, who does He get to touch?

Change is inevitable, except from the vending machine.

Bro. Gunter- If you'll make the living worth while, I'll make the living

John Ashcroft- In the Muslim religion God asks you to send your son to die for him. In Christianity God sent His son to die for you.

Camps are the most important thing we do- Thomas Trask

If you are looking for a place to serve you will always have a ministry, but if you are looking for a place to have a ministry you will never have a place to serve- George Wood

Talent determines what you can do. Motivation determines what you’re willing to do. Attitude determines how well you do it- Lou Holtz

Flying is moments of boredom split up with moments of shear terror.

Power is the ability to walk away from something you desire to protect something you love

Church sign said Jesus Only. A couple of days later the wind had blown some letters off to say Us Only

Family members that have passed away are not in your past, they're in your future- Jessie Duplantis

Carolyn Warner had 85 million lottery ticket but she lost it

A leader must have a battle plan and character. If you can only have one, drop the battle plan.- Norman Shwartzkof

Love is a gift, it's not a reward- Pastor McNabb

Quality creep- getting better at everything as you go

Problems come when leaders spend more time trying to keep their job than to do their job.

The word integrity means oneness. A person's thoughts, words and actions are one.

If there is a mist in the pulpit, there's a fog in the pew- Glen Berteu

If you will grow, your ministry will grow- Doug Reed

The trouble is we have way to much to live with and way to little to live for- Oz Guiness

At a church in the South Seas that would seat 1,000 there was an inscription to honor John Getty that said, "When he landed in 1848 there were no Christians, when he left in 1872 there were no heathen".

Men are drawn to the pleasure of lust and women are drawn to the power of lust- Josh Harris

The ark was built by amateurs and the titanic was built by professionals.

The woodpeckers inside the ark are worse than the storms outside.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice- Middle Eastern saying

When you remain open to your people's needs, they will remain open to your vision. When you take action to meet your people's needs, they will take action to fulfill your vision- John Maxwell

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." C.S. Lewis

"Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you." Tommy Smothers

"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." -- Tom Fleming

It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters -Coach Bear Bryant

"Anyone can work hard when they want to. Champions do it when they don't want to."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years"

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there"

Pain is weakness leaving the body

Give God what's right -- not what's left.

Man's way leads to a hopeless end -- God's way leads to an endless hope.

A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.

He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.

Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.

He who angers you controls you.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

Give Satan an inch & he'll be a ruler.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

Follow up or the devil will swallow up

A servant is one who gains pleasure in making another succeed.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing."--Martin Luther

When I got saved, I wanted to set the world on fire. A few weeks later I came back for matches.

Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited .... until you try to sit in their pews.

Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.

It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.

When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there.

People are funny, they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.

Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.

Quit griping about your church; if it was perfect, we couldn't belong.

The phrase that is guaranteed to wake up an audience: "And in conclusion....."

If the church wants a better preacher, it only needs to pray for the one it has.

God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should we?

To make a long story short, don't tell it.

Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.

Peace starts with a smile.

I don't know why some people change churches; what difference does it make which one you stay home from?

A lot of church members who are singing "Standing on the Promises" are just sitting on the premises.

We were called to be witnesses -- not lawyers or judges.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that holds this country back as much as committees.

Be ye fishers of men. You catch 'em - He'll clean 'em.

Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.

Don't put a question mark where God put a period.

Don't wait for 6 strong men to take us to church.

Forbidden fruits create many jams.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

God grades on the cross, not the curve.

God loves everyone, but prefers "fruits of the spirit" over religious nuts!"

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.

He who angers you, controls you!

If God is your Co-pilot - swap seats!

Prayer: Don't give God instructions - just report for duty!

The task ahead of us is never greater than the Power behind us.

The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.

We don't change the message, the message changes us.

You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.

The best mathematical equation ever seen: 1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given.

The closer we walk to the Shepherd, the farther we are from the wolf.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.--Martin Luther

A good way to have the last word is to apologize.--Barbara Johnson

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.--Oswald Chambers

The only ability you need to serve God is availability--Grant MacDonald

Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. --Mother Teresa

Flee temptation and don't leave a forwarding address.

The key to happiness isn't in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.- Dan Millman

If Darwin's theory of Evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can-opener by now.--C.S. Lewis

I criticize by creating something beautiful--Michelangelo

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strengths--Corrie ten Boom

The greatest tragedy of our day is that Christian leaders attempt to traffic in unlived truth- DL Moody.

by Rabbi Aryeh Spero

Posted Sep 7, 2005

In New Orleans, beginning Tuesday morning, August 30, I saw men in helicopters risking their lives to save stranded flood victims from rooftops. The rescuers were White, the stranded Black. I saw Caucasians navigating their small, private boats in violent, swirling, toxic floodwaters to find fellow citizens trapped in their houses. Those they saved were Black.

I saw Brotherhood. New York Congressman Charlie Rangel saw Racism.

Yes, there are Two Americas. One is the real America, where virtually every White person I know sends money, food or clothes to those in need -- now and in other crises -- regardless of color. This America is colorblind.

The other is the America fantasized and manufactured by Charlie Rangel, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who constantly cry "racism!" even in situations where it does not exist, even when undeniable images illustrate love, compassion and concern. These three men, together with today's NAACP, want to continue the notion of Racist America. It is their Mantra, their calling card. Their power, money, and continued media appearances depend on it.

Often, people caught up in accusing others of sin neglect to undergo their own personal introspection. They begin to think they alone inhabit the moral high ground. It is high time these men peered into their own hearts at the dark chamber that causes this unceasing labeling of their fellow Americans as "racist." They may find in that chamber their own racism -- against Whites.

There is only one real America. Beginning Friday morning in Houston, thousands of regular citizens poured into the Astrodome offering water, food, clean clothes, personal items, baby diapers and toys, love and even their homes to the evacuees who had been bused in from New Orleans. Most of the givers were White, most of those being helped were Black. But there was Jesse Jackson, busy on TV, accusing the country of not putting Blacks -- i.e., him -- on some type of Commission he is demanding.

Where was he early in the week? Not sweating with others from around the country who had scraped their last dollar to come help. With Jesse, it's always about Jesse.

After decades of hearing accusations from Jesse, Al, Charlie, the NAACP and certain elitists about how racist America is, it would have been refreshing to hear them for once give thanks to those they for years have been maligning. These self-anointed spokesmen for the Black community lead only when it comes to foisting guilt and condemnation, and not when it comes to acknowledging the good in those they have made a career in castigating.

As a Rabbi I have a message I wish to offer to my fellow members of the cloth, Reverends Jackson and Sharpton: "It is time to do some soul searching. Your continued efforts to tear this country apart, even in light of the monumental goodness shown by your White brothers, is a sin."

There are no churches in the world like the American churches. And there are no better parishioners and members of churches anywhere in the world. These churches are saving the day. Their members -- infused by the special and singular teachings of our unique American Judeo-Christian understanding of the Bible -- are, at this moment, writing an historic chapter in giving, initiative, and selflessness. They are opening their homes to strangers. They are doing what government is incapable of doing.

America works because of its faith-based institutions. It always has. That is what makes it America.

So next time the ACLU tries to diminish and marginalize the churches, saying there is no role for religion in American public life, that an impenetrable wall must be erected separating the citizens from their faith, cry out "Katrina." Next time the ACLU goes to court asking that U.S. soldiers not be allowed to say Grace in the Mess Hall and that communities be forbidden from setting up a nativity scene, ask yourself: without the motivation of Goodness sourced in Faith, would people offer such sacrifice? Where else does this Brotherhood come from but the Bible which teaches "Thou Shall Love Thy Neighbor as Yourself."

I saw brotherhood on Fox News, where 24/7 reporters used their perch as a clearing-house for search-and-rescue missions and communication between the stranded and those in position to save. In contrast, the Old-line networks continued with their usual foolish, brain-numbing programming. Those who always preach "compassion" chose profit over people.

The New York Times has utterly failed America. Its columnists could have used their talents and word skills to inspire and unite a nation. Columnists such as Frank Rich and Paul Krugman, however, revealed their true colors by evading their once-in-a-lifetime chance to help and instead chose to divide, condemn, and fuel the fires and poison the waters of Louisiana. In them, I saw no Brotherhood. The newspaper always preaching "compassion" verifies Shakespeare's "They protest too much."

Similar elitists here in the northeast and on the West coast have over the years expressed their view of the South as "unsophisticated" and Texans as "cowboys." Well, the South has come through, especially Houston and other parts of Texas, whereas, as I write this on Labor Day, the limousine moralizers are lying on east and west coast beaches thinking they're doing their part by reading Times' editorials and calling George Bush "racist." How sanctimonious life becomes when proving you are not a racist depends not on living in a truly integrated neighborhood, but by simply calling others racist.

Like so often in history, facts trump platitudes. Reality reigns. Those who always preach brotherhood, thus far have acted devoid of it. Those who for decades have been accused by elitists of not having compassion are the ones living it. They are: the churches, the military, and the sons and daughters of the South.

Quotes from wealthy people

The care of $2 million is enough to kill anyone. There is no pleasure in it- W.H. Vanderbilt

I am the most miserable man on earth- John Jacob Astor

I have made many millions, but they have brought me no happiness- John D. Rockefeller

Millionaires seldom smile- Andrew Carnegie

I was happier when doing a mechanic's job- Henry Ford

Do you givin' while you're livin', so you're knowin' where it's goin'.”- Ron Blue, financial advisor

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, let it should find its way into my heart.”- John Wesley

The following words of a commitment statement reportedly found among the papers of a young African pastor in Zimbabwe after he was martyred truly describe the colors of a Christian.

I'm a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I'm a disciple of His and I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still.

My past is redeemed. My present makes sense. My future is secure. I'm done and finished with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, mundane talking, cheap living, and dwarfed goals.

I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I don't have to be right, or first, or tops, or recognized, or praised, or rewarded. I live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by Holy Spirit power.

My face is set. My gait is fast. My goal is heaven. My road may be narrow, my way rough, my companions few, but my guide is reliable and my mission is clear.

I will not be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed.

I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice or hesitate in the presence of the adversary. I will not negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.

I won't give up, shut up, or let up until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ.

I am a disciple of Jesus. I must give until I drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes. And when He does come for His own, He'll have no problems recognizing me. My colors will be clear!

MISSIONS QUOTES

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" -- Hudson Taylor

"If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China" -- Hudson Taylor

"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." -- Hudson Taylor, missionary to China

"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God" -- William Carey, who is called the father of modern missions

"The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become." -- Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in 1956 trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador

"In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been" -- Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone

"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" -- David Livingstone

"Sympathy is no substitute for action." -- David Livingstone, missionary to Africa

"The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible" -- Ralph Winter, U.S. Center for World Mission

"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." -- C.T. Studd

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." -- C.T. Studd

"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist." -- Oswald J. Smith

"The mission of the church is missions" -- Oswald J. Smith

"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith

"This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" -- Keith Green

"If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king" -- Jordan Grooms

"If ten men are carrying a log -- nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end -- and you want to help, which end will you lift on?" -- William Borden, as he reflected on the numbers of Christian workers in the U.S. as compared to those among unreached peoples in China

When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages." To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here."

"The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" -- Carl F. H. Henry

"Go, send, or disobey." -- John Piper

"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." -- Amy Carmichael, missionary to India

"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." -- Mike Stachura

"To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map." -- William Carey, pioneer missionary to India

"The Church must send or the church will end." -- Mendell Taylor

Quotes on the family

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space- Evan Esar

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city- George Burns

My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film- Penelope Lombard

In some families, 'please' is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was 'sorry’- Margaret Laurence

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended- Robert Frost

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.

A family vacation is one where you arrive with five bags, four kids and seven I-thought-you-packed-its- Ivern Ball

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family- Bernard Shaw

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am- Rebecca Richards

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