Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best

by Eugene H. Peterson

named persons constitute most of the agenda of our lives.

good intentions are worthless if they are not coupled with character development.

Intentions must mature into commitments if we are to become persons with definition, with character, with substance.

goodness does not just happen.

It requires careful nurture, disciplined training, long development.

he needed friends.

It takes courage to act in hope. But it is the only practical action, for it is the only action that survives the decay of the moment and escapes the scrapheap of yesterday’s fashion.