J. R. Todd Quotes

The most pressing problem facing America can't be solved in Washington DC. True hope and change can't be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It can only be found at the foot of the cross on Calvary.

Why does it seem that the church is more interested in people involvement rather than people engagement.

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together.

Overtime, your actions betray your heart.

Service is born out of love not duty.

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

To sacrifice anything is of great honor. To sacrifice everything is of God.

In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That’s called sacrifice.

He who is flexible masters the day.

Success is never achieved for when your think you reach it, something else grabs your interest.

It is important to view current events through Christ-like eyes.

A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.

People change and mature.

Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.

If you're committed, that just means you're in agreement your undertaking could be your ticket to the asylum.

in Vancouver BC and drive south to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington.

south to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington. Today,

removed an inch long section. She almost called Dr. Sears, but

Havin to make all the rules, all the time, wasn’t never my idea of a party.

Courage is being yourself in a world that almost seems to endorse conformity.

Those who boast about honor shouldn't lack in it.

[Camus] "The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.

I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on

I was scared...and did not know what was coming for me next.

Good men are remembered for their friends. Great men are remembered for their enemies. The greatest men are those who turn their enemies into friends.

I swearwe'd lose ourhearts ifthey weren'twith elasticand butterflypinclasped safelyin.

Transformation rarely happens accidentally.

If your business still needs to change, isn’t it likely that your thinking needs to change first?

Some will, some won't. Look for the ones who will.

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount one of gifts, but in the amount one is loved.

Give yourself permission to Risk. It is only in risk that one finds success.

Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand.

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount love one receives.

Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.

What trumps the 'How' of Leadership is the 'Why

Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

Success comes through small daily wins.

Talking with three people deeply is better than talking with thirty people superficially.

I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"

I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth.

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover, ' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

Intelligence work in the Marine Corps proved to me the strategic value in establishing a Central Command to act as a clearinghouse for disparate bits and floating bytes of information.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

How do you deliver the best possible and affordable health care to maximize health?

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.