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“Experience it forward. What employees experience, Customers will. The best marketing is happy, engaged employees. Your Customers will never be any happier than your employees.”
― John Dijulius, The Customer Service Revolution: Overthrow Conventional Business, Inspire Employees, and Change the World

“Without apology, the Christian leader is a devoted student and a lifelong learner.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“PEOPLE WOULD RATHER FOLLOW A LEADER WHO IS ALWAYS REAL VERSUS A LEADER WHO IS ALWAYS RIGHT. DON’T TRY TO BE A PERFECT LEADER, JUST WORK ON BEING AN AUTHENTIC ONE.”
― Brad Lomenick, H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle.

“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
― John Dewey

“I have come to believe that, as followers of Jesus, one of the worthiest endeavors we can undertake is to take the Great Commandment seriously and learn to be in relationship with our literal neighbors.”
― Jay Pathak, The Art of Neighboring: Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door

“By becoming good neighbors, we become who we’re supposed to be. As a result, our communities become the places that God intended them to be.”
― Jay Pathak, The Art of Neighboring: Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door

“A runaway calendar will keep you from simplifying your life. It holds you hostage to tangible things—meetings, appointments, and projects—without giving proper priority to the intangibles: who you are becoming, your relationships with family and friends, your connectedness to God. Without conscious intervention, this pattern of chronically overscheduling ensures that the priorities you care about most will take a backseat to the urgent priorities of others every time.”
― Bill Hybels, Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul

“All day long, you are selectively paying attention to something, and much more often than you may suspect, you can take charge of this process to good effect. Indeed, your ability to focus on this and suppress that is the key to controlling your experience and, ultimately, your well-being.”
― Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

“It is not difficult to see that if everyone were to follow Paul’s personal example of celibacy, his idea of holiness, and his dream of celibate society, the human race would in no time be wiped off the face of the Earth.”
― Danail Hristov

“Not until the invention of printing in the late fifteenth century did a single book (or codex) containing the entire Jewish or Christian Bible become the most widespread form to be produced and disseminated. Indeed, we have extensive evidence of a great diversity of forms of the Bible in the preceding centuries. This diversity reflects the complex history of its genesis, which began with the writing of individual texts. Through a series of interwoven and mutually influential processes, these texts then became the Jewish and Christian Bibles. It is vital to recognize this multifaceted nature of the Bible, not least because it makes us aware that we are dealing not with a clearly circumscribed collection but with a compilation that varies in extent and configuration and whose boundaries with other texts are often very fluid.”
― Konrad Schmid, The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture

“In fact, God seems to love that kind of raw, uncut prayer, skirting the line between blasphemy and desperate faith. He’s not nearly as scared of honesty as we are.”
― John Mark Comer, God Has a Name