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"If I can memorise one verse, I can memorise one more, and ten more, and even one hundred." - Dr Oscar Lowry
The urgent will shout. The important must be chosen.
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in others because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." – C.S. Lewis
“God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.” - Elisabeth Elliot
"Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing." - Wilt Chamberlain
"We suffer more in imagination than in reality." - Seneca
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” C.S. Lewis
"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them." - David Allen, author of Getting Things Done
It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of great achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. So that his place will never be with those cold timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
"In the end, your life is no more than the sum of what you gave your attention to." John Mark Comer
Faith is not opposed to knowledge; it is opposed to sight. And grace is not opposed to effort; it is opposed to earning. (Dallas Willard)
Escapist behaviors: when we’re too tired to do what’s actually life giving for our souls, we each turn to our distraction of choice: overeating, over drinking, binge-watching Netflix, browsing social media, surfing the web, looking at porn—name your preferred cultural narcotic (Comer)
"The Christian hope enables Christians to be realistic about how rubbish life is! They have a clear sight of the life they're bound for. They can look at the mundane of reality and say this is not all there is." Tim Keller
"Vision without action is hallucination" Thomas Edison
"In short, my goal is change. I want them to do something different instead of just think about it. When I’m finished preaching, I want people in the audience to know what to do with what they have heard.” Andy Stanley
"If he were called to an ordinary position, and to common work, common grace might perhaps satisfy him, though even then it would be an indolent satisfaction; but being elect to extraordinary labors, and called to a place of unusual peril, he should be anxious to possess that superior strength which alone is adequate to his station. His pulse of vital godliness must beat strongly and regularly; his eye of faith must be bright; his foot of resolution must be firm; his hand of activity must be quick; his whole inner man must be in the highest degree of sanity." (Charles H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students)
We know that all the religions of the world are built on their various religious codes. Their followers live and behave according to these rules. But the Lord’s salvation is not like that. The salvation of the Lord, through the regeneration of the Holy Spirit, gives us a new life. Since we have such a new life, we can now live and behave in the presence of God through the sense of this new life. (Witness Lee, The Experience of Life)
"An hour of effective, precise, hard, disciplined, and integrated thinking can be worth a month of hard work. Thinking is the very essence of, and the most difficult thing to do in , business and life. Empire builders spend hour after hour on mental work... while others party. If you're not consciously aware of putting forth the effort to exert self-guided integrated thinking, if you don't act beyond your feelings and you take the path of least resistance, then you're giving in to laziness and no longer control your life." - David Kekich
You know that when people get nervous in sports, most start playing not to lose. You need to play to win. Instead of not taking risks, you need to push harder, swing harder. You will be better because you lost. From now on you will use your experience to rise to the occasion and win. (Craig Groeschel)
The enemy of faith is apathy
Parent your phone; put it to bed before you and make it sleep in. (John Mark Comer)
"I have learned the hard way that the principal elements of my time budget have to be in the calendar eight weeks in advance of the date. Eight weeks! If this is August, then I am already beginning to think through October. And what goes into the calendar? Those non-negotiable aspects of my private world: my spiritual disciplines, my mental disciplines, my sabbath rest, and of course my commitments to family and special friendships. Then a second tier of priorities will enter the calendar: the schedule of the main work to which I am committed—sermon study, writing, leadership development, and discipling." (Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World)
A pastor's greatest gift to the church is his personal holiness.
What a caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly
If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. Elisabeth Elliot