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“It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy World

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“Few of us are tempted today to dream too big. Rather, our vision shrinks to the size of our limited experience. Yet all things are possible for those who believe in the God who created the heavens and the earth. In our disbelief, we can ask God for inspiration to believe. Then he may give us a vision of divine size.”
― Collin Hansen, A God-Sized Vision: Revival Stories that Stretch and Stir

“Leaders see everything with a leadership bias. Their focus is on mobilizing people and leveraging resources to achieve their goals rather than on using their own individual efforts. Leaders who want to succeed maximize every asset and resource they have for the benefit of their organization. For that reason, they are continually aware of what they have at their disposal.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

“We are not called to choose between a Christian life based on truth and doctrine or a life filled with spiritual power and experience. They go together.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“a Christian who understands the gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit seeks God not primarily to gain reward or avoid punishment (since both are guaranteed in Christ anyway). Christians seek God for themselves.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“To pray in Jesus’ name means to come to God in prayer consciously trusting in Christ for our salvation and acceptance and not relying on our own credibility or record. It is, essentially, to reground our relationship with God in the saving work of Jesus over and over again. It also means to recognize your status as a child of God, regardless of your inner state. God our Father is committed to his children’s good, as any good father would be.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“When we believe in Jesus Christ we are united to him. We are “in him,” as Paul says repeatedly. This means that what is true of Jesus is true of us. Because he has the perfect and secure access of an obedient child to the Father, so now do we. “If the Father always hears the Son, then he always hears those who, in Christ, are his sons.”190 When we pray in Jesus’ name, therefore, we do so with supreme confidence and yet humble dependence on unmerited grace.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“Prayer is the way that all the things we believe in and that Christ has won for us actually become our strength. Prayer is the way that truth is worked into your heart to create new instincts, reflexes, and dispositions.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“There’s one thing that 82 percent of all unchurched people can’t seem to resist. It cuts through their defenses and penetrates their barriers. According to surveys at LifeWay Research, 82 percent of them seem to have a single weakness: if a friend, or someone they know, invites them to church. Reread that: 82 percent of all unchurched people would come to church this weekend if they were invited by a friend.2”
― James Emery White, The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated

“The question isn’t, “What do I want to get done in the next thirty days?” but, “Who do I want to become in this next season of my life?”
― Bill Hybels, Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul

“Whatever you will complete or not today, rest in the only work that will never need to be done again. Rest in the fact that Jesus has done the most impossible job in the world, done it perfectly, and made it available. Take it. Enjoy it. Build your life on it. Let it change your whole view of your life and work. Use His work to put your work into perspective. Believe His work is counted as yours. Despite all that you fear and dread about the next ten hours—a critical boss, a vicious competitor, a looming deadline, a complaining customer, an impossible sales target, unrelenting children, monotonous drudge—you have Christ’s perfect work credited to your account.”
― David P. Murray , The Happy Christian: Ten Ways to Be a Joyful Believer in a Gloomy World

“Most leaders shipwreck or live inconsistent lives because of forces and motivations beneath the surface of their lives, which they have never even considered.”
― Peter Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Church, Updated and Expanded Edition: A Strategy for Discipleship That Actually Changes Lives

“Satan can do nothing about God’s unshakable kingdom directly, but only indirectly through human infirmity and rebellion.”
― Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23

“If we are to know the abundant provision of God’s unlimited resources, we must also understand how Satan works to rob us of that experience. He does so by deceit.”
― Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23

“Deciding to fill our minds with God is how we keep our hearts. To listen to his Word and nourish our whole beings with it is not a nice thing we might do occasionally. Our very lives depend upon it. The psalmist gave us the prescription for life when he declared, “Your word I have treasured in my heart, that I might not sin against You” (Ps. 119:11 NASB). God speaks life-giving truth to us in his Word, which is living and active and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart (Heb. 4:12). We need to cultivate a readiness to listen.”
― Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23

“When we get up out of bed in the morning, among our first thoughts should be this: Lord, speak to me. I’m listening. I want to hear your voice. This is not because it’s a nice way to start the day, but because the only thing that can keep us straight is being full of God and full of his Word. If you don’t do something like this, you do not have the option of having a neutral mind. Your thoughts cannot be empty. As the old saying goes, nature abhors a vacuum. If you are not entertaining God’s truth, you will be entertaining Satan’s lies. This is what happened to each one living in the days of Noah when “every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gen. 6:5). Now contrast that with Jesus.”
― Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23

“Satan’s constant assault is aimed at our belief in God’s goodness and power, that God will supply all our needs, and that we can trust God to be sufficient in all ways. When our minds are on God, and our thoughts are formed by our knowledge of God, such sufficiency will flow to us. Thus Satan’s main task is to keep our minds elsewhere, anywhere but on God.”
― Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23

“Audit your adult years. Can you mark any moments where your view of (and hope for) the future changed the course of your life, whether for good or bad? Try to come up with five. Create a plan to mark every moment throughout this next week where God’s promised future of glory, goodness, and resurrected life enters your thoughts. I want you to see how often or seldom you allow God’s good future to make its way into your daily life.”
― Jefferson Bethke, Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive

“What have been the moments in your life when you’ve most felt despair? What areas of your heart and story does despair touch? Can you trace a misplaced hope behind it? A hope that is cheaper and lesser than our truest hope? And can you renounce that false hope right now?”
― Jefferson Bethke, Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive

“But maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. The war is in the mind. It starts there. And more men need to do war in the mind so they can win the war in the world. Our thoughts become actions, our actions become behaviors, and our behaviors become our lives.”
― Jefferson Bethke, Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive

“The reason so many men think they don’t have any control over their present is because they don’t have any expectation about their future. They see life as something that is happening to them. And when you live without expectation, despair is just around the corner. But let me tell you right now, brothers—despair is evil. It’s from the Enemy. It’s a poison. And you have to go after it, or else it will kill you.”
― Jefferson Bethke, Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive