“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.” — John Piper

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty” – Socrates

“Consumerism’s worst effect is it shunts us away from God’s presence. It always ushers us into the wrong place. Is it possible that the God who made the heavens and the earth, who hewed mountains and poured seas, the God who raises the dead, the God who knit you together in your mother’s womb, numbered your days, knows your thoughts, knows you by name, and says to you, “Everything I have is yours”–is it possible, I’m asking, that that’s not enough? That we won’t be happy until our kitchen is renovated, or we’ve bought a better car, or visited Europe? And then we won’t be happy anyway? Is that possible? The Cult of the Next Thing guarantees it.” – Mark Buchanan, Pastor

Quoted from his article in Christianity Today: “The Cult of the Next Thing:” http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1999/september6/9ta062.html

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man’s” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanks Becca!

“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena; whose faces are marred by sweat and blood; who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat” – Theodore Roosevelt

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, no-one thinks of changing himself” – Tolstoy

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other” – Mother Teresa

“It has always seemed strange to me…the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second” – Doc (Cannery Row)

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” – Dr. Seuss