Competition
Ernest would always give a helping hand to a man on a ledge a little higher up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, reportedly said of his friend Ernest Hemingway, in A Life Without Consequences
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal
Evangelism
It is the temptation of this pragmatic age to presume that technique is the secret of evangelism.
A. Skevington Wood (Feb. 4, 1957)
The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood; spread it out, and it enriches the world.
Luis Palau
Failure
One reason God created time was so there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
James Long
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
Family
Today’s children are tyrants. They disobey their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates (circa 400 b.c.)
A mother is a person who-seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people-promptly announces that she never did care for pie.
Tenneva Jordon in Hope Health Letter (5/96)
Heaven
The hope of dying is the only thing that keeps me alive.
Vance Havner
Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
C.S. Lewis in The Problem of Pain
Prayer
Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning his laws, so that he can do through us what he wants the most.
Agnes Sanford in The Healing Touch of God
The answer to prayer is the part of prayer that glorifies God.
E.M. Bounds in The Possibilities of Prayer
Purpose
What do guys like me do who’ve had the world by the string? I got some notoriety … and made some money in the car business. … Now that chapter has closed, and I don’t think much about cars anymore. You can plan everything in life, and then the roof caves in on you because you haven’t done enough thinking about who you are and what you should do with the rest of your life.
Lee Iacocca in Fortune (6/24/96)
You shouldn’t gloat about anything you’ve done; you ought to keep going and try to find something better to do.
David Packard, who built Hewlett-Packard into a $31 billion company and gave more than $1 billion to charity
Work
If work were nice, the rich would not have left it to the poor.
Haitian Proverb
So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker
When Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner, then I’ll clean house.
Roseanne Barr
Tell your boss what you think of him, and the truth shall set you free.
Anonymous
If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don’t think it necessarily means you’re a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance.
Jack Handey in Deeper Thoughts
1997 by Christianity Today/Leadership Journal.
