The PEOPLE. Quotes
...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.
To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank
...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.
Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.
How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.
I wanted to say a lot but wasn't sure where to start
Home isn't just a house or a city or a place
Be happy NOW. Feel good NOW. That's the only thing you have to do. And if that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you have received the greatest truth of The Secret.
You get to choose your decision, but you don't get to choose the consequences.
And that’s the truth I needed to swallow: people don’t step out and love for you
it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).
All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more
Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.
No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be andhe will become as he can and should be.
Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.
While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. - Chapter 5 My Cinderella
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle
concentrate less on people and much on purpose. People can put your purpose in disarray
Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong
Greasy burgers and fries are so much more delicious than swallowing a cow whole.
Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.
Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.
Love covers all shortcomings and failures, overlooks one's mistakes and does not bring to mind one's past mistakes - My Last Letter, Chapter 1
Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation
He (Chuck Smith) was leery of music that moved the body more than the soul.
Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now
People focus on role models
He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.
The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.
Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.
We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.
There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next
Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.
Self-confident people Inspire confidence in others
I begin the chapter and book on very elementary reasoning and a simple description: this description of relationships developed naturally and socially