I am amazed at how many believers today prefer warrior language to servant language. Jesus’s favorite terms for his disciples are slaves, servants, little ones, sheep, lambs and children, not fighters or soldiers. (The latter is used only a few times in the rest of the N.T.)
All close relationships hurt, because no perfect people live on the earth. But the safe people are the wise ones that can hear their imperfections and respond to our hurt. Cloud
Adequate isn’t exciting, and it doesn’t get things done. What you should be doing as a leader is provoking new ways of thinking, experimenting fearlessly and stoking your organization’s boundless creative energy. William Craig
“God values diversity in our relationships because it helps us acknowledge our own blindness and our tendency to misperceive or wrongly judge the motivations of others.” - Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
Thomas Lynch: "Grief is the tax we pay for loving." We don't grieve as those who don't have hope—but grieve we do and grieve we must. Lives of long obedience deserve long farewells.
I sometimes wonder, do we need to reach our deathbeds before we wake up to what really matters to us? Can’t we start now, with whatever health we have, to love,live, and lead from the profound insights we already know? Fox
I sometimes wonder, do we need to reach our deathbeds before we wake up to what really matters to us? Can’t we start now, with whatever health we have, to love,live, and lead from the profound insights we already know? Fox