Shrewd Quotes

“The question is not so much what is going on in the room, but what is happening to me because of it? What”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus

“Dr. Rachel Remen, founder of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness, writes: “Real stories take time. We stopped telling stories when we started to lose that sort of time, pausing time, reflecting time, wondering time. Life rushes us along and few people are strong enough to stop on their own. Most often, something unforeseen stops us and it is only then we have the time to take a seat.”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus

“For thousands of years Satan has been reading one book, and that book is the heart of man. —James Ryle”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus

“You’re not following a script or a linear set of Bible truths. You’re following the nudges of a Person. And only a Person can guide us through the brambles of our chaotic and insensible lives, helping us emerge into the clearing of our calling.”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. —G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man A”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus

“Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance. —Jim Rohn A”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus

“shrewdness can operate like a powerful lever, knocking us off our guard and opening us to our desperate need for Jesus.”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus

“Shrewd is a way of dealing with people—it means understanding their motives and understanding my own motives, and then discovering how I can reconcile the two.”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus

“Jesus was always studying how things worked, then applying the right force in the right place at the right time to advance the kingdom of God on earth.”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus

“Our choice of roads does “make all the difference”—Jesus delivers a blunt truth when He says there are “many” who walk through the “wide” gate and travel the “broad” way that “leads to destruction” (Matt. 7:13).”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus

“Awareness puts us into contact with the universe. It”
― Rick Lawrence, Shrewd: Daring to Live the Startling Command of Jesus