“Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.”
Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
“There's a story about when President Lyndon Johnson visited NASA and as he was walking the halls he came across a janitor who was cleaning up a storm, like the Energizer bunny with a mop in his hand. The president walked over to the janitor and told him he was the best janitor he has ever seen and the janitor replied, "Sir, I'm not just a janitor, I helped put a man on the moon." See, even though he was cleaning floors he had a bigger purpose and vision for his life. This is what kept him going and helped him excel in his job.”
Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
“When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.”
Source: The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
“What sort of man is this, who over and over again, gave numerous details about His death, months before it occurred, and added to each such utterance that on the third day after His decease He would rise again from the dead - and DID RISE, as even the city of Jerusalem soon came to believe? No other founder of a great world religion (or a small one) ever made such statements, or ever came forth from the dead.”
“The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876
“If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom."”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People