If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. Happy moments, praise God. Difficult moments, seek God. Quiet moments, worship God. Painful moments, trust God. Every moment, thank God.

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Personal ambition and empire building are hindering the spread of the gospel.
John R. W. Stott

In this age of the megachurch, our culture worship doing. We put busy people on pedastals -- especially if the busyness results in bigger and more.

But when you take the pagan worship of busness and add to it the biblical mandate to reach the world, you have a lethal combination. The church has baptized busyness and activity and basically formed a pact with the devil. This pact has succeeded in silencing those who criticize the trend toward hectic, overworked, burned-ou, spiritually dry ministers who -- in the "name of God"-- neglect their families, their souls and their physical well-being.

Mike Yaconelli

It is becoming increasingly apparent that if the church is to fulfill its mission on earth, the petty jealousies, arguments, and enmity that have often existed among us (in the forms of denominationalism, non-essential theology disputes, turf battles) must come to an end.

Mike Higgs

Money can purchase a house, but not a home. It can buy companionship, but not friends. It can provide a bed, but not sleep. Money can buy the good life, but not eternal life.

Charles Swindoll

Beware of Christian activities instead of Christian being. The reason workers come to stupendous collapses is that their work is the evidence of a heart that evades facing the truth of God for itself I have not time for prayer, for Bible study, I must be always at it.

Oswald Chambers

Thinking and acting Christianly in the blizzard of modern information and change requires the courage of a prophet, the wisdom of a sage, and the character of a saint—not to speak of the patience of Job and the longevity of Methuselah.

Os Guiness in Prophetic Untimeliness

The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

Jim Elliot

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Corrie Ten Boom

I could more easily contain the Gulf of Mexico in a shot glass than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.

Brennan Manning

A living, loving God can and does make His presence felt, can and doesspeak to us in the silence of our hearts, can and does warm and caress ustill we no longer doubt that He is near, that He is here.

Brennan Manning

The Lord rewards faithfulness above fruitfulness, which puts us all on the same footing, whether famous for our effectiveness or unknown in our faithfulness.

John Piper

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly. Blessed are those who lay down their lives for their friends.

Henri Nouwen

I hope that you feel that Emergent is a safe and friendly place for you to hang out in your emerging journey, and I invite you to participate however you want. God’s doing some great things, and I have great hope that Emergent might be a little, tiny part of God’s Kingdom work.

Tony Jones

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven 'principles' of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life ? economics, work, personality, even litter removal. . . . Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming invention of the Least-Great Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one of the SLA's revolutionary principles: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani the same seven 'principles' of Kwanzaa."

Ann Coulter

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy. It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Henri Nouwen