"As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, and condemnations."
-- Henri Nouwen
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PARENTS AS LEADERS
"Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children."
-- Charles Swindoll
IGNORING GOD?
"One of the greatest threats to faith is busyness. It's jumping from one thing to another, and therefore never developing the prayerful/contemplative side of our lives sufficiently so that we might hear God."
-- Lou Nanni, VP University of Notre Dame
WHO SURROUNDS YOU?
"The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. No man becomes great on his own. No woman becomes great on her own. The people around them help make them great."
-- Matthew Kelly
THE HIGH ROAD
"Resentment is like taking a poison and waiting for the other person to die."
-- Malachy McCourt
PARTNERSHIP WITH GOD
"We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone."
-- Nelson Mandela
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DEEP FAITH?
"Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them."
-- Richard Rohr
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
"You can never really get enough of what you really don't need."
-- Matthew Kelly
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UNIVERSAL RESPONSE
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it."
-- Lou Holtz
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UNWILLING OR UNABLE?
"Everything is possible for one who believes." -- Mark 9:23
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SUSTAINMENT
"In a culture of confusion and in a world of constant change, many people don't have a spiritual North Star, which is what God's dream for us provides."
-- Matthew Kelly
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12 STEP PROGRAM
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
NO MAGIC WAND
"The only thing missing in any situation is that which you are not giving."
-- Marianne Williamson, author, speaker
TURNING POINTS
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn."
-- Unknown
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WHO SURROUNDS YOU?
"The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. No man becomes great on his own. No woman becomes great on her own. The people around them help make them great."
-- Matthew Kelly, internationally acclaimed author and speaker