Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.

David Sedaris

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

Proverb

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Dante Alighieri

You don't resign from these jobs, you escape from them.

Dawn Steel

“The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.”

Leonard Ravenhill

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. As busy, active, relevant ministers, we want to earn our bread by making a real contribution. This means first and foremost doing something to show that our presence makes a difference. And so we ignore our greatest gift, which is our ability to enter into solidarity with those who suffer. Those who can sit in silence with their fellowman, not knowing what to say but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart. Those who are not afraid to hold a hand in gratitude, to shed tears in grief and to let a sigh of distress arise straight from the heart can break through paralyzing boundaries and witness the birth of a new fellowship, the fellowship of the broken.

Henri Nouwen

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Terence

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

Mike Krzyzewski

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson