David

“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

“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

“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