If you don’t make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.<\/p>
—E. Stanley Jones<\/p>\n\n
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.<\/p>
—Herbert Agar<\/p>\n\n
It ain’t so much what folks don’t know,<\/p>\n\n
It’s that they know so much that just ain’t so.<\/p>
—Josh Billings<\/p>\n\n
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost.<\/p>
—Tennis star Arthur Ashe<\/p>\n\n
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.<\/p>
—John Wayne<\/p>\n\n
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?<\/p>
—Marie Antoinette, moments before her death<\/p>\n\n
The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself.<\/p>
—Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\n\n
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.<\/p>
—Richard J. Needham<\/p>\n\n
The Christian who is ambitious to be a star disqualifies himself as a leader.\n<\/p>
—David Watson<\/p>\n\n
A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head.<\/p>
—Vance Havner<\/p>\n\n
If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can’t take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.<\/p>
—Peter Marshall, Sr.<\/p>\n\n
Our calling and purpose as followers of Christ is to love God completely, to love self correctly, and to love others compassionately.<\/p>
—Kenneth Boa<\/p>\n\n
Any problem that can be solved with money isn’t a problem. It’s an expense.<\/p>
—Anonymous<\/p>\n\n
The essence of life today is not having—it is having to have.<\/p>
—David Hansen<\/p>\n\n
Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we’ve been.<\/p>
—Ann Landers<\/p>\n\n
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.<\/p>
—John Cheever<\/p>\n\n
One thief on the cross was saved, that none should despair; and only one, that none should presume.<\/p>
—J.C. Ryle<\/p>\n\n
If there are a thousand steps between us and God, he will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.<\/p>
—Max Lucado<\/p>\n\n
The man who knows his sins is greater than one who raises a dead man by his prayer.<\/p>
—Isaac the Syrian<\/p>\n\n
1996 Christianity Today\/LEADERSHIP Journal<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"