Quotes for the Day - August 17, 2010

"People who think big picture recognize that there are a thousand different efforts to which they might make a contribution. But they also know that there are only a few of those efforts to which they can make a maximized contribution on the basis of their giftedness.

Resilient people identify those particular functions and qualities of being that are clearly in the gift zone. It is not really that hard to do." ---Gordon MacDonald in A Resilient Life

"Dare to trust the times and seasons of your life to your Heavenly Father's care. He only waits to be trusted, and then life becomes woven into a beautiful mosaic of His loving forethought and care." ---F. B. Meyer

"Great leaders are great managers--not just managers of projects or other people but mostly of themselves." ---Reggie McNeal in Practicing Greatness













"Freedom comes not from the absence of restraint but from the presence of discipline." ---Richard J. Foster in Life with God

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." ---Thomas Jefferson