The Lord has indeed showed Himself a prayer-hearing God; He has given His people a praying spirit and a lively faith, and then He has answered their prayers far beyond their highest expectations.  This wilderness and solitary place has been made glad, this dreary desert now rejoices and blossoms like the rose; yea, it blossoms abundantly, and rejoices even with joy and singing.--Reverend James McGready quoted by William Speer in The Great Revival of 1800 ​

People who use rescuers for validation seldom look at themselves and change.—Dr. Henry Cloud in The Power Of The Other
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Every yes is pregnant with a no.  We can’t say yes to something without saying no to something else.—Samuel R. Chand in What’s Shaking Your Ladder?

Ban “Yes, but!”  “Yes, but” is another way of sahing, “My idea is better than your idea and I many not even have my idea yet.” That’s why “yes, but . . . “ is a subtle sign of discounting and disrespect . . . Instead, encourage people to say either: “No, I disagree.  Here’s why . . .” or “Yes, I see your point and I think . . .”—George Kohrieser in Care to Dare

A vague when is the same as not having a when at all.—Samuel Chand in What’s Shaking Your Ladder?

Someone once described “burnout” as something that happens “when you stop doing what you love to do to engage in the activities that support doing what you love.”—Samuel R. Chand in What’s Shaking Your Ladder?

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.—Thomas Paine
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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.—Ralph Waldo Emerson

A drop of ink may make a million think.—George Gordon Byron
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The only book that should ever be written is one that flows up from the heart, forced out by the inward pressure.—A.W. Tozer in God’s Pursuit of Man

Utter not a word by which anyone could be wounded.—Hindu Proverb

Moral worth, then, depends not on the final purpose of a course of action but on the “maxim” or ethical principle we’ve used to determine what to do. —Rushworth M. Kidder in How Good People Make Tough Choices
            
​If there is nothing worth dying for—in this sense—there is nothing worth living for . . . —Obituary of John Alexander Hottell III

If worship does not change us, it has not been worship.  To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change.  Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter His gracious light.--Richard J. Foster in Celebration of Discipline

Worries have faded away like ugly clouds and my soul rests in the sunshine of perpetual peace.  I can lie down anywhere in this universe bathed around by my own Father’s Spirit.--Brother Lawrence & Frank Laubach in Practicing His Presence

A person’s worldview can be understood as the lens through which he/she views the grand stage of human existence. It is an individual’s personal life philosophy used to make meaning out of experiences and to provide direction and purpose in life. This complex cognitive framework determines what one attends to, how one interprests information and events, and knowledge and experience one seeks out, and how one behaves. Not static, but dynamic, a person’s worldview actually influences every aspect of his/her current life and future goals. Thus, a persons’ worldview is the foundation upon which the development of the human spirit rests.
      This cognitive framework contains at any point in time an individual’s collection of knowledge and assumptions about how the world operates; truths about the world based on learning and experiences; a system for determining truth and meaning; values and beliefs that one should live by; a vision of a life rendered worth living by making a meaningful contribution; reflections on one’s mortality; and beliefs about what comes after death.  Individuals continuously refine and develop their worldviews through the acquisition of new knowledge, reflection on their own and others’ experiences, introspection concerning their values, beliefs, and meaning-making systems, and discussing with others topics about their human essence.—Patrick J. Sweeney, Sean T. Hannah and Don M. Snider “The Domain of the Human Spirit in The Warrior’s Character

And those good works, in which you have been so ready to trust, will not more vindicate you in his awful presence, than a man’s kindness to his poor neighbours would be allowed as a plea in arrest of judgment, when he stood convicted of high treason against his prince.—P. Doddridge in Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul
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There is no passage of Scripture that claims works can prove salvation.—Dr. Charles Bing in Simply by Grace: An Introduction to God’s Life-Changing Gift

God does not regard the greatness of the work but the love with which it is performed.--Brother Lawrence & Frank Laubach in Practicing His Presence

In a more exhaustive study, a psychologist analyzed 558 emotion words—every one that he could find in the English language—and found that 62 percent of them were negative versus 38 percent positive.—Chip Heath & Dan Heath in Switch