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She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization," "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Topanga: Do I need to know the middle of the story?Corey: Do you want to be proud of her?Topanga: Yes.Corey: Then, no.
— Girl Meets World
If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden.
— David McGee
There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.
— Alister E. McGrath, If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C.S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life
Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.
— Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.
— Robert Kurson, Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
If you know EVERYONE, you don't know ANYONE.
— Matt      Chandler
Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado
— Matt      Chandler
What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali
— Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.
— Code Black
Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.
— Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
God's Fatherly prerogative, " is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy—the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.Ali
— Davis Miller, Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts
The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.
— David Platt, Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.
— David Platt, Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin
— Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.
— David Platt, Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
I serve," should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Expositing. John 14, the speaker explains that the Holy Spirit making His home with us involves Him exposing other areas of our lives for repentance, regeneration, and renewal.
— Matt      Chandler
Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, "I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God's finger is on the latch of my door, and I am ready for Him to enter.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Rapture is costly
—  it usually means you are overlooking consequences.
Charity fits the economy of scarcity, because it supports the blasphemous myth that the rich are rich because they deserve to be, and their riches are theirs to deal with as they please. With such charity, we are not worthy to tell the story of manna in the wilderness, to pretend to eat together at the Lord’s Supper, or claim the Year of Jubilee as our own.
— Michael Rhodes
One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.
— Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
— Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
Having a big family is costly and invasive. As we realize how big our family is in Christ, how our family obligations transcend our artificial boundaries, there ought to be a weightiness to our response to our brothers and sisters in need.
— Mike Dsane
Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.
— Kevin Thoman
He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.
— Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
Battling busyness is a community response.
— Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.
— Matt      Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
God is a good paymaster
—  He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it
We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
— Matt      Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....
— Jars of Clay
As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
When you take your place as the authority figure in your home, your child will feel more safe in the real world, not the screen world.
— Gary Chapman, Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World
Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.
— Matt      Chandler
It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
It wasn't work. I played myself.
— Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
Private worship excites us for public worship.
— Matt      Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
— Matt      Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
The pastor owns the opportunity to issue of the flock that it is OK not to be OK.
— Matt      Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.
— Matt      Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.
— Bono
Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
With a more expansive stretch, there’s a better chance that I’ll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she’s smart and beautiful.
— Frank Bruni
It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.
— Girl Meets World
Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
What's a man worth without love ? $.89 worth of chemicals." Hawkeye Pierce
— M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team, M*A*S*H EPISODE GUIDE: Details All 251 Episodes with Plot Summaries. Searchable. Companion to DVDs Blu Ray and Box Set.
Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. “Fire you?” Mr. Watson asked. “I just spent $10 million educating you.
— Adam Grant
When God does not answer His children according to the letter, He does so according to the spirit. If thou askest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered because He gives thee the finest flour? If thou seekest bodily health, shouldst thou complain if instead thereof He makes thy sickness turn to the healing of spiritual maladies?
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
He was cross-examining my subconscious .
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel
— John Ortberg, Faith and Doubt
Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Intersections are crash magnets.
— Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.
— George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode 2 Attack of the Clones
The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.
— Sons and Daughters
Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.
— Joseph Campbell
To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Don't make peace with the sin in your life.
— John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
The further you go, the more you're going to need the people you started with.
— Code Black
We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!
— Lynne Olson, Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.
— David Halberstam, Firehouse
A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.
— Sandra M. Michelle, No Free Lunch: Paying the Price to Follow Jesus
Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.
— Sandra M. Michelle
When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay
— John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may be relaxed, but the weapon of all-prayer need never be out of order.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
there was a common understanding that religion generally served the powerful, who manipulated the words of the gods and prophets to justify their greed and lust for power. Yet Christianity comes in numerous guises; mystical to dogmatic; it is used by some as a reason to justify their wars, their oppression and their hatreds. Others use it to oppose those wars and other injustices.
— Ron       Jacobs
Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?
— Stephen Davey
Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.
— John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
— David Brooks
My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand.
— David McGee
The person who asks a lot of questions has room for their faith to grow.
— David McGee
The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
That's the whole point of being 20. You could be a lot of things. I am much older than you are. I AM things.
— Frasier
Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.
— John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.
— C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing.
— Rick Holland
The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves.
— Caitlin Keiper
The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.
— Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
The author describes the critic within us as adults as "the selves who live too much in their heads rather than their bodies, who are burdened with too much knowledge about how the world works rather than excited about how it could work or should, who are afraid of being judged and not being loved. Most adults do not live in a world of forgiveness and unconditional love, unless, that is, they have small children.
— Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.
— Will Durant
A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
it’s helpful to focus your child’s attention on the present moment by deciding together on one thing you may particularly look for.
— Linda Lantieri, Building Emotional Intelligence: Techniques to Cultivate Inner Strength in Children [With CD]
The author sees Luke's loyalty to the apostle Paul "depicted architecturally in the great church at Rome known as St. Paul Outside the Walls. There, a statue of Luke holding a writing stylus commemorates not only his work as a Gospel author but his faithfulness to Paul.
— Bryan Litfin, After Acts: Exploring the Lives and Legends of the Apostles
Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.
— Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances….It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
— Václav Havel
Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.
— Caitlin Keiper
The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.
— John Kasich, Every Other Monday: Twenty Years of Life, Lunch, Faith, and Friendship
He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.
— John Kasich, Every Other Monday: Twenty Years of Life, Lunch, Faith, and Friendship
It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.
— Stephen Davey
A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.
— C.J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.
— Jason Jennings, The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change
pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize.
— Arthur C. Brooks
He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Time served does not guarantee maturity.
— Doug Glanville
I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.
— Building 429
Williams had a very shrewd sense of how much heat the organism could take at any given time
It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.
— Henry R. Luce
The world doesn’t judge us by our theology
—  it judges us by our behavior. The validity of Scripture in the world’s view is determined by how it affects us.
He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.
— Samuel Wells
Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.
— David Brooks
George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence
— Henrik Bering
Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
The more the world commits to programs for poverty and education, the greater the gap for those with intellectual disabilities. That’s because money goes where results are quick and quantifiable, which is not likely for people with intellectual disabilities.
— LAWRENCE DOWNES
the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day.
— Lisa Lantieri
the real tests of life can come a child’s way at any moment,
— Lisa Lantieri
although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]
— Linda Lantieri
The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,
— Bayard Rustin
Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
— Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way
It takes a long time to grow an old friend, so I figure I better get moving.
— Matt Labash
Not every story started off big enough to notice.
— Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they're seeing, but they recognize it as authentic.
— Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
Never base motivation or fear, entirely.
— Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.
— Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.
— Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.
— David Brooks
Faith is as precious to die by as it is to live by.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Do your best, and your best will be growing better.
— Emma Willard
you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.
— David Brooks
The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God never encourages self-reliance.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.
— Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
Now, what happens if you eliminate anything from the Bible that offends your sensibility and crosses your will? If you pick and choose what you want to believe and reject the rest, how will you ever have a God who can contradict you? You won't! You'll have ...A God, essentially, of your own making, and not a God with whom you can have a relationship and genuine interaction. Only if your God can say things that outrage you and make you struggle (as in a real friendship or marriage!) will you know that you have gotten hold of a real God and not a figment of your imagination. So an authoritative Bible is not the enemy of a personal relationship with God. It is the precondition for it.
— Timothy J. Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.
— Joseph J. Ellis, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
It’s easy to give God a list of excuses for not feeling worthy or as capable as someone else, in our service to him. The problem is that God doesn’t call those who are unprepared or incapable. He calls those who have the talent and ability to serve. He has it all planned out for us. Our challenge is to accept his calling and move out in faith believing in his promises of help and support.
— Diane Goold, Diane's Daily Devotions: A Daily Scripture Study with Devotional Development
True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.
— Timothy J. Keller, King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus
We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.
— Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.
— Gary Rohrmayer, Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church
The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.
— Timothy J. Keller, King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus
When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The God of the universe--the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor--loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.
— Francis Chan
It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.
— Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way
On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?
— Timothy J. Keller, King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus
If you eat, breathe and grow, two things are happening—which have little to do with either air or burgers. You are receiving an education and your “spirit” is being formed. To be alive is to be formed.
— Gary W. Moon
wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.
— David Brooks
It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
— Os Guinness
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
The better you get, the better you better get.
— David    Allen
I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.
— Richard Byrd
Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline
Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.
— Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?
The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution
— Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.
— Jeremy Camp, I Still Believe
My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.
— Jeremy Camp, I Still Believe
Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline
Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.
— Jonathan Darman, Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America
The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.
— Charles Williams
I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.
— David Skinner
I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.
— Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.
— Charles Dickens
I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.
— Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
I have traveled millions of miles, speaking to Christians. I have counseled privately with hundreds of them about their beliefs and lifestyles. What I have found has to be one of the most tragic ironies of all time: A tiny group of believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.
— K.P. Yohannan, The Road to Reality: Coming Home to Jesus from the Unreal World
When I push the button on my laptop, it should start up. If it doesn’t, it can’t blame its nonexistent emotions. It should respond immediately and appropriately because that’s what it has been created to do.In evaluating my parenting, I realized much of my anger with my children arose from my having the wrong perspective about them. I was viewing them as if they were machines.
— Aaron Earls
Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
There is an inverse relationship between control and trust. Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people, especially those in power, realize. Leaders in government, news media, universities, and corporations think they can own trust, when, of course, trust is given to them. Trust is earned with difficulty and lost with ease. When those institutions treat constituents like masses of fools, children, miscreants,or prisoners, when they simply don't listen,it's unlikely they will engender warm feelings of mutual respect. Trust is an act of opening up. It's a mutual relationship of transparency and sharing. The more ways you find to reveal yourself and listen to others, the more you will build trust, which is your brand.
— Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?
Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays for them, encourage pursuit of special interests, prompted them to write essays on their readings, and urge them to recite poetry.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we received as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, then we will possess freedom from anxiety.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline
For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.
— Donald Miller
A good officer learned to take care of the feet of his men first, and from there their stomachs and hearts. By that means, he could motivate their souls.
— Newt Gingrich and William R Forstchen, To Try Men's Souls
Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.
— Robert A. Caro, Means of Ascent
People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are governed by the thymotic urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the sort of glory that can be won only by showing strength in confrontation with death.
— David Brooks
The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort – and the stakes of the effort – to see the war as a stage for their own personal heroism. Most men seem to have taken the lesson that there's enough honor in doing a hard job when you have to.
— Jeremy Rabkin
The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.
— Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?
The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other.
— A.W. Tozer
You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?
— Plato
At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
The overemphasis on standardized tests forces teachers to teach the same restricted, unintuitive curriculum. Longtime educator Brent Evans has said that today's schools are organized as assembly lines, "(running at a set speed) and with each worker (teacher) at designated places (way levels) on the assembly line performing predetermined actions on products (students) considered to be somewhat generic (one-size-fits-all) and passive (waiting to be filled or formed to the desired shape).
— Brent Evans
When it comes to biblical counseling, friendship is central to the counseling relationship because it is a key aspect of the Gospel. Paul's words display it; Jesus' actions approve it. In Jesus Christ, friendship has its ultimate – that is, it's paradigmatic – display. He sacrificially gave Himself for the good of those he befriended – people who were awkward and troubled types, people who did not offer Him anything particularly desirable in return.
— James MacDonald, Authentic: Developing the Disciplines of a Sincere Faith
So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth