Accomplishment

"You can never please God by outward actions - no matter how good - if your inward heart attitude is not right. It is easy to equate "accomplishment" with goodness. Just because something is done well or thoroughly doesn't mean it's good. Measure all you do by the rules of God's word, not by how proficiently you do it."

- Unknown

A musical ear

"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience."

- John Cage

Heroes

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

- Will Rogers

Administration

"The Spiritual ‘gift of administration’ is the ability to turn God-given vision into reality. The word administration comes from the Latin and literally means ‘to’ (ad) ‘minister’. To administer is to do ministry. This role is so essential that Paul lists it as one of the crucial gifts for building up the church – the Spirit equips us with the ability to make things happen, to get the stuff of church-life done. So let’s not belittle it – it is a hugely important gift and an active part of what the Holy Spirit is doing in our midst."

- Al Gordon

'Yes but'

"When people say, ‘yes but’, no-one hears the ‘yes’."

- John Maxwell - courtesy of Stew!

Worship is...

"Worship is to quicken the conscience by the Holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God"

- William Temple

Changing the world

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

Seeing and Savouring Jesus Christ

"Christ does not exist in order to make much of us. We exist in order to enjoy making much of Him"

- John Piper, Seeing and Savouring Jesus Christ

Fruit of the Spirit?

"Over-intensity is not a fruit of the Spirit. Make sure you’re having fun."

- Al Gordon

Ministry

"Ministry is meeting the needs of the world on the basis of God’s resources, not our own"

- John Wimber

The life I'm supposedly leading

"I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading."

- Zach Braff

Weariness

"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness."

- John Ruskin

Deserving

"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."

- Jack Benny

The cost of non-discipleship

"Non-discipleship costs abiding peace, a life penetrated throughout by love, faith that sees everything in the light of God's overriding governance for good, hopefulness that stands firm in the most discouraging of circumstances, power to do what is right and withstand the forces of evil. In short, it costs exactly that abundance of life Jesus said he came to bring (John 10:10)."

Dallas Willard, Devotional Classics

Thinking and Living

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

- Alfred North Whitehead

Mother Theresa

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

- Mother Theresa

God and Elvis

"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"

- Irv Cupcinet

Row away from the rocks

"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."

- Indian proverb

One thing I know...

"If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke."

- Hugh Elliott

Spend time with your family

"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes."

- Harold B Lee