"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."
-- Thomas Paine
CONVERSATIONS THAT COUNT
GOD'S WAY NOT YOUR WAY
"Sometimes you have to let go of the life you pictured in order to have the life that God has planned."
-- John Hagee
ANTIDOTE TO ENVY
"Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum."
-- Baal Shem Tov
THE GAME CLOCK IS TICKING
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
-- Robert Byrne
LABORATORY OF OUR SOULS
"We don't invent our mission, we detect it."
-- Victor Frankl
photo credit: Flickr: Blinded by Science
NO EXCEPTIONS
"Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive."
-- C.S. Lewis
FAIR OR RIGHT?
"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."
-- William Saffire
ETERNAL HORIZON
"Change your perspective and you change your reality."
BE NOT AFRAID
"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
-- Ambrose Redmoon
TAMING OUR RESTLESSNESS
"Peace and joy can only come to us when we stop demanding that life -- our spouses, our friends, our vocations and vacations -- give us something that they cannot give."
-- Ron Rolheiser
DON'T ASK WHY, ASK HOW
"Pray not for easier lives; pray to be stronger men."
-- John F. Kennedy
photo credit: Chuck Deckert
SERVICE VERSUS LEADERSHIP
photo credit: Stuart Miles on FreeDigitalPhotos.com
"Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace; a soul generated by love."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
THE PLACE OF THE BREAK
"When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. His unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden."
- Victor Frankl, Holocaust survivor
photo credit: Bones by Keone on Flickr
DILUTING NEGATIVE INFLUENCES
"Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but calmness within the storm."
-- Unknown
DO MORE
"Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
FLASHLIGHTS, NOT FLOODLIGHTS
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"God will plant our feet on the path that's best for us, but it's up to us to do the walking."
-- Immaculee Ilibagiza
GIFTS IN DISGUISE
photo by steven depolo
"I've missed over 9000 shots, I have lost almost 300 games, 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over in my life, and that is why I succeed."
-- Michael Jordan
FAIR OR RIGHT?
"The right to do something does not mean doing it is right."
-- William Saffire
BE NOT AFRAID
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
-- Ambrose Redmoon
CONNECTING THE DOTS
"You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards."
-- Steve Jobs