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“Vision without traction is merely hallucination.”
― Gino Wickman, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

“When you stop doing and start depending on God’s divine favor, you will begin to experience the Jesus-kind of results.”
― Joseph Prince, Unmerited Favor

“The more you focus on beholding Jesus in all His loveliness and the less you struggle to earn things by your own merits, the more you become safe for greater success in your life.”
― Joseph Prince, Unmerited Favor

“Dorothy Bernard says that courage is just fear that has said its prayers.”
― Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

“one reason people make bad decisions is they don’t have a good decision as one of their options.”
― Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

“To a large degree we have preached our own version of the knowledge of good and evil as though it were the message of salvation. We need to confess that we have sinned in the gravest fashion by frequently loving our version of truth and ethics more than people, and even God himself. For one cannot genuinely love God while refusing to love one's neighbor (1 John 4:20).”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God

“You have to learn the difference between a need, which should be met, and an entitled desire, which should be starved. Meeting a need leads to life, and feeding an entitlement leads to destruction. It comes down to this: that which creates love, growth, and ownership vs. that which creates superiority or a demand for special treatment.”
― John Townsend, The Entitlement Cure: Finding Success at Work and in Relationships in a Shortcut World

“In its essence, entitlement goes deeper than a person thinking, It’s okay if I want to be lazy because someone else will bear my burdens, or I’m so special that the rules don’t apply to me. In fact, entitlement goes so deep that it rejects the very foundations on which God constructed the universe. At its heart, entitlement is a rejection of reality itself.”
― John Townsend, The Entitlement Cure: Finding Success at Work and in Relationships in a Shortcut World

“Near the heart of my purpose in this book is to suggest that not only have we misread the gospels, but that we have made them ordinary, have cut them down to size, have allowed them only to speak about the few concerns that happened to occupy our minds already, rather than setting them free to generate an entire world of meaning in all directions, a new world in which we would discover not only new life, but new vocation.”
― N.T. Wright, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

“Once you lose the kingdom theme, which is central to the gospels, everything else becomes reinterpreted in ways that radically distort, that substitute a subtly different “gospel” message for the one Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are eager to convey.”
― N.T. Wright, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

“Your False Self is who you think you are. Your thinking does not make it true. Your False Self is almost entirely a social construct to get you started on your life journey. It is a set of agreements between your childhood and your parents, your family, your neighbors, your school chums, your partner or spouse, and your religion. It is your “container” for your separate self. 4 Jesus would call it your “wineskin,” which he points out usually cannot hold any new wine (Mark 2: 21–22). Your ego container likes to stay “contained” and hates change. Your False Self is how you define yourself outside of love, relationship, or divine union. After you have spent many years laboriously building this separate self, with all its labels and preoccupations, you are very attached to it. And why wouldn’t you be? It’s what you know and all you know. To move beyond it will always feel like losing or dying. Perhaps you have noticed that master teachers like Jesus and the Buddha, St. Francis, all the “Teresas” (Avila, Lisieux, and Calcutta), Hafiz, Kabir, and Rumi talk about dying much more than we are comfortable with. They all know that if you do not learn the art of dying and letting go early, you will hold onto your False Self far too long, until it kills you anyway.”
― Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self

“Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“It was so strange, how much fear there was in the world, and the most fearful of all were so often those who held the power in their hands.”
― Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit

“Our thoughts can either limit us to what we believe we can do or free us to develop abilities well beyond our expectations or the expectations of others.”
― Caroline Leaf, Think, Learn, Succeed: Understanding and Using Your Mind to Thrive at School, the Workplace, and Life

“The truth is, we don’t have to learn to think outside the box. We have to recognize that the “box” is a figment of our imagination—we are as intelligent as we want to be.”
― Caroline Leaf, Think, Learn, Succeed: Understanding and Using Your Mind to Thrive at School, the Workplace, and Life

“When people consciously choose to practice operating in a mindset of gratitude, for instance, they get a surge of rewarding neurotransmitters such as dopamine and experience a general sense of being alert and a brightening of the mind. The path to success starts with our thinking, and our brain will respond accordingly. If,”
― Caroline Leaf, Think, Learn, Succeed: Understanding and Using Your Mind to Thrive at School, the Workplace, and Life

“We can retrain the brain to focus on the good things in life. We step into our “normal” when we do this, because we are wired for love. Having an “attitude of gratitude,” so to speak, enables us to see more possibilities, to feel more energy, and to succeed at higher levels in our lives.”
― Caroline Leaf, Think, Learn, Succeed: Understanding and Using Your Mind to Thrive at School, the Workplace, and Life

“Deliberate, negative thinking like I can’t do it or This is too hard can also poison our “thinker” moments, which can result in mental and physical damage in the brain and body, setting the stage for future mind and brain issues, including the dementias, which are largely preventable.”
― Caroline Leaf, Think, Learn, Succeed: Understanding and Using Your Mind to Thrive at School, the Workplace, and Life

“Whitewashing your toxic thoughts and words with positive-thinking affirmations is merely a temporary fix, a band-aid approach.”
― Caroline Leaf, Think, Learn, Succeed: Understanding and Using Your Mind to Thrive at School, the Workplace, and Life