What I say is not as important as how people feel once I walk away

Find out what it’s like being on the other side of you

You are what you are becoming

The best apology is changed behavior

The best thing you bring to leadership is a well ordered soul

“You need 3 bones to live: a wish bone, a funny bone and a back bone. know when to stand up and what to stand for” -Garand Thumb

If given one dollar, give 2 dollars worth of effort

Happy people make people happy

If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working on it

If you follow the Shepherd, you will never be lost

A Christ centered life cannot be a self centered life

Just because there is an open door, doesn’t mean you have to walk through it

People with good intentions make promises. People with good character keep them

“When you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.” - Oswald Chambers

We can’t erase it until we face it

Worry is the misuse of imagination

We have to become greater than what we suffer

Purpose isn’t found in one sweeping gesture but in the daily forging of a devoted life

“I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I ended up where I needed to be.” -Douglas Adams

Revealing your feelings is the beginning of healing them

Willpower is the willingness to accept God’s power not something I have to muster

God’s guidance and direction can start when my demands stop

Destruction is paved with good intentions. You can pick your sin but you cannot choose your consequences

“You have to have a lot of confidence to do nothing.” = Movie: A Few Good Men

Love the person, talk about the behavior

Sin will always take you farther than you wanted to go, keep you longer than you wanted to stay and cost you more than you ever wanted to pay

“Sin will keep you from this book (the Bible) or this book will keep you from sin.” -D.L. Moody

Change occurs when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the fear of change itself.

Let that which is shakeable be shaken so that which is unshakable shall remain.

Circumstances don’t make a man, they reveal him

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you because smooth seas never make a skillful sailor

In essentials unity, in non essentials liberty in all things charity.

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.” Charles Spurgeon

There are two types of pain…the pain that comes with discipline and the pain that comes with regret

My role in life is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

Nothing changes if nothing changes

A faith that can’t be tested can’t be trusted

Worrying about comfort is the enemy of progress

You will either come apart to meet with God or you will come apart when life starts spinning

Those who have seen a great light are destined to shine it. Jesus said “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life”. Jn 8:12

Religion is man’s attempt to reach out to God, Jesus is God’s attempt to reach out to man.

Sometimes we sacrifice what we want most for what we want in the moment

“What is our aim? To fight! What is our goal? Victory….at all costs! Never, ever, ever give up.” Winston Churchill

“ Our Actions are controlled by our presently dominating thoughts.” Dr. Joe Aldrich