CONVERSATIONS THAT COUNT

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

-- Thomas Paine

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

LABORATORY OF OUR SOULS

"We don't invent our mission, we detect it." 

-- Victor Frankl

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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

SERVICE VERSUS LEADERSHIP

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"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

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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

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"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