Interesting Things I've Heard Here & There

- "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot

- "Busy is the new stupid." Bill Gates

- Our weaknesses "protect us from the arrogance of self-reliance that tempts us all." New Morning Mercies

- “It's a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought with speaking the truth.” The Glass Onion

- "What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important." Dwight D. Eisenhower

- "The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates

- “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” G.K. Chesterton

- "How often do we attempt work for God to the limit of our incompetency rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency." J. Hudson Taylor

- “It is possible to be simple by using something other than gray.” Van Gogh

- “I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” Steve Jobs 

- “Sometimes God doesn’t take us out of the storm, but instead gives us peace in the storm.” Blake Pitts, Lifepoint Church

 -"You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself." Gene Mauch

- “Everybody’s weird, but there are some people who like to pretend that they’re normal.” Fred Figglehorn

- “Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a gap . . . pain is a lot of information really quick.” Jerry Seinfeld

- "When you know your why you can survive almost any what."

- "Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers." Francis Chan

- “Pain shared is pain divided.” Dave Grossman

- "It's better to not want than to have." My dad any time we're in a store

- “Just because it came before doesn’t mean it caused what came after” 

- "One way to think of the spiritual journey and of Jesus is as a slow burning off of our attachments to all that is not God." John Mark Comer

- “The only winning move is not to play.” War Games

- "To live without risk is to risk not living." Pope Pius XII

- "The purpose of preaching is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."