"We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself." ---Oswald Chambers
"Spiritual leaders need to ward off an insidious perfectionism that may permeate their thinking. Carrying unrealistic expectations about your own and others' performance eventually violates people by robbing them of the joy of celebrating their strengths. It is idolatrous as well to set aside God's work in people through his sovereign distribution of talent and substitute another design requirement that is fabricated around organizational requirements, not people development. God is in the people-development enterprise." ---Reggie McNeal in Practing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders
"Thankfulness does wonders for the soul. All we need to do is ask ourselves what's getting our attention. When we focus on what's right instead of what's wrong, life improves considerably." ---Hal Urban
in Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter
"Relationships live in conversations. How can a relationship survive without conversation? Conversations are the most powerful way to communicate, and the conversations we have either build or destroy." ---Bart Sayle and Surinder Kumar in Riding the Blue Train
" . . . the best leaders . . . practice. They discipline themselves to practice the words, the images, and the stories they will use to help us perceive the future more clearly."
---Marcus Buckingham
in The One Thing You Need to Know
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