But whoever did want him, who believed he was who he claimed and would do what he said, He made to be their true selves...

John 1:12. The Message.

If Peter Drucker has taught us one thing, it is that every organization exists to serve people outside the organization. When it exists to serve people inside the organization, it dies. 

Leonard Sweet. CARPE MANANA.

Do not what you love; do what you are.

Penelope Trunk. Bad career advice: Do what you love.

God gives us glimpses into the enormity of His work, not to increase our capacity to do a larger work or to do more work but to make the work before us more vital and less optional.

We are compelled to do the work we can do because we cannot do all that we want.

Justin McRoberts. Y: Album Booklet.

Waiting Room by Kim Thomas

 As you praise and pray, you make your circumstances and your life a test tube that demonstrates the existence of a personal God, a God who is present and involved and who controls the natural universe. The fact that He intervenes and overrules in your daily situations and concerns becomes more clear to you.

Ruth Myers. 31 DAYS OF PRAISE.

When we sew we use a pattern and cut away everything that doesn't look like the item we're making... As we look at Simplicity: a Life Patterned after God we will discover how to 1) reduce the clutter, 2) persevere in the everyday, 3) focus on the goal. We find this pattern in Hebrews 12:1-2...

Kim Thomas. SIMPLICITY: FINDING PEACE BY UNCLUTTERING YOUR LIFE.

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people.... If Christ had done what you are doing who would ever have been spared?

Martin Luther.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. 

Soren Kierkegaard quoted by Joan Dempsey in The Art of Facilitation: The “Walk &Talk”

Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but more of not confessing my inability to fully life up to my own words.

Henri Nowen. SABATICAL JOURNEY.

Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption....(Newton was one of the world’s great introverts: William Wordsworth described him as “A mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”)

....“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible,” Picasso said.

Susan Cain, author of the forthcoming book “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.” Opinion: The Rise of the New Groupthink.