"So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church."

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Source : Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference”, p.39, B&H Publishing Group

Thom S. Rainer

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“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.”
“For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.”

Source : "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.
“Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.”
“When we react to life from the head without joining forces with the heart, it can lead us into childish, inelegant behavior that we don't respect in ourselves. If we get the head in sync with the heart first, we have the power of their teamwork working for us and we can make the changes we know we need to make.”
“When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.”
“The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.”
“For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.”

Source : Nikki Grimes (2003). “Bronx Masquerade”, p.42, Penguin
“Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.”

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