Walking

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."

- Ellen DeGeneres

The end of the world

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

- Charles M Schulz

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

Happiness

"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive."

- Samuel Goldwyn

"'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'"

- Leslie Nielsen

Jogging

"The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it."

- Joan Rivers

Heroes

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

- Will Rogers

Sanity

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."

- Rita Mae Brown

A good sermon

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."

- George Burns

Riches

"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."

- Michael Pritchard

Speed of light

"It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."

- Woody Allen

Criticism

"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."

- Donald Rumsfeld

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!

The Internet

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."

- Robert Wilensky

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

Matters of style and matters of principle

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

- Thomas Jefferson

Deserving

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

- Jack Benny

Where have I gone wrong?

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"/ Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."

- Charles M Schulz

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

Radicals and Conservatives

"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them"

- Mark Twain

Traditions

"Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening"

- Barbara Tober