| Keyword | Quote |
| "How are you doing? "Pretty good, under the circumstances." "What are you doing under the circumstances?" | |
| Tommy Tenny | |
| abortion | If a mother can kill her own child, what is left of the West to be destroyed? |
| Mother Teresa | |
| adventure | If you aren't living on the edge, you are taking up too much space. |
| adventure | Now we should live where the pulse of life is strong. Life is a tenuous thing - fragile, fleeting. Don't wait for tomorrow. Be here now! Be here now! Be here now! |
| (on refrigerator door) | |
| advertising | Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. |
| Stuart (1907-1979 Britt | |
| age | If you live to the age of a hundred, you have it made because very very few people die past the age of a hundred. |
| George Burns | |
| artificial intelligence | A year spent in Artificial Intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. |
| atheists | For obvious reasons, atheists have to take good care of themselves. |
| Asheigh Brilliant | |
| authority | Power never was and never will be the issue between God and Satan. Authority was the issue - the authority Satan had obtained through Adam. Jesus did not come to get back any power, nor to remove Satan's power. He came to regain the authority Adam lost to the serpent and break his headship over the earth.. Authority is the issue. Power does the work, but authority controls the power...The power issue was won in heaven by God before man was created, and won on earth at the cross. |
| Dutch Sheets | |
| belief | No one is a believer until he desires for others what he desires for himself. |
| Islamic speaker at 2003 National Prayer Breakfast | |
| calling | The place that God calls us is that place where the world's deep hunger and our deep desire meet. |
| Frederick Buechner | |
| change | To have impact, there must be a collision. |
| change | People are the gatekeepers of change. It is people who have the visions and power, not the structures or geographic locations. The reason most visions fail is that the focus is on the program, agenda, or technology - rather than the people. God trusts His visions to people. |
| Carl Townsend | |
| change | It's tough to get dinosaurs to dance. |
| Kriegel & Brandt | |
| change | It would be difficult to overstate the magnitude of change that will take place in the lives of all of us, in human history, as a result of the information revolution that has so unobtrusively taken place in our day. Information, its communication and use, is the web of society; the basis for all human understanding, organization, and effort. |
| John Diebold | |
| change | One might consider our institutionsﾅare the "chromosomes" of our society, and they preserve in them the successful "gene' mutations of previous social, cultural, and technical inventions. To protect themselves against further change, institutions harden their resistance by formalizing rituals, customs, and "traditions". In a rapidly changing technology, the social organism thus preserved becomes unable to cope with its new environment and either must give way to the innovators, or fail to survive. |
| Don Fabun | |
| change | The lily is doubling in size every day. In thirty days it will cover the entire pond, killing all creatures living in it. The farmer does not want that to happen; but being busy with other chores, he decides to postpone cutting back the plant until it covers half the pond. The question is: On what day will the lily cover half the pond? The answer is: on the twenty-ninth day - leaving the farmer just one day to save his pond. |
| Old French Proverb | |
| change | We are engaged, if the transformal thinker is correct, in a process which has no parallel in human history - an attempt to change the whole of a culture into quite a different model through a conscious process. |
| Robert Theobald | |
| change | It is easier for people to understand and work within traditional realities than to perceive new ones. |
| Robert Theobald | |
| change | To the blind, all things are sudden. |
| Old Proverb | |
| change | Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. |
| Howard Aiken | |
| change | There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take a lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. |
| Nicolo Machiavelli | |
| change | God give us grace to accept with serinity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that can be changed, and wisdom to distinguish one from the other. |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | |
| change | It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but those most adaptive to change. |
| change | Whenever there is change or conflict, you can be sure God will use it to bring people to him. People are most receptive to God when they are under tension or in transition. |
| Rick Warren | |
| change | They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. |
| Andy Warhol | |
| change | In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces |
| change | A rhino can run thirty miles an hour. A rhino, however, can only see thirty feet ahead. What's at thirty-one feet, however, doesn't make any difference. |
| Erwin McManus | |
| change | We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them. |
| Charles West | |
| change | I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. |
| Jim Rohn | |
| chaos | In a hurricane, even pigs can fly. We have a lot of flying pigs around today. |
| John Dvorak | |
| chaos | The told me the only thing they were afraid of was getting compllacent. So they needed to bring in outside people to keep throwing themselves off balance. So I was brought into Pixar to cause a certain amount of disruption. I've been fired for being disruptive several times, but this is the first time I've been hired for it. |
| Bird, Brad | |
| children | There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| church growth | One of the better ways to motivate Christians to effective evangelism is to persuade them that growth is possible and to show them how the Holy Spirit has caused it. |
| Don McGavran | |
| church growth | "We believe that God alone causes the growth of His Church. Yet part of His plan is to include us as partners in reaching/gathering the harvest which is so ripe. This resource is designed to assist the local church leaders to strategically identify and mobilize for Great Commission outreach, trusting God to cause the growth. To God be the Glory!" |
| Mark Halvorson | |
| church growth | Research is carried on in order to find ways which God is currently blessing to the liberation of the captives, the recovery of sight of the blind, and the acceptance of the good news by the poor. Consequently research should be concentrated in growing churches and growing denominations to find out why they are growing. |
| Don McGavran | |
| church growth | Christianity has shifted to the southern hemisphere. Many new Chrstians there tend to be Bible literalists, Holy-Spirit-motivaterd and expect miracles. |
| Philip Jenkins, The New Christendom | |
| civilizations | The historian Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that 19 out of 21 civilization have died from within, not by conquests from without. He tells us that there were no bands playing or flags waving when these civilizations decayed. It happened slowly in the quiet and the dark when no one was aware of what was happening. |
| Arnold Toynbee | |
| communication | Once we are able to have messages delivered almost instantaneously, the way we utilize them changes completely. |
| James Martin | |
| communication | Seven percent of the message's effect is carried by words, while 93% of the total impact reaches the listener through non-verbal means - facial expressions, vocal intonation. |
| Albert Mehrabian, psychologist | |
| communication | I never learned anything while I was talking. |
| Larry King | |
| computer | One computer can do the work of fifty ordinary people. No computer can do the work of one extraordinary person. |
| computer | It was then that I learned that computers were built to make money, not minds." |
| Gary Kildall | |
| computers | Every day, do something which will not compute. |
| computers | A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a workstationﾅ. |
| computers | There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. Ken Olson (President/chairman/founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,1977) |
| Ken (Pres.DEC, 1977) Olson | |
| core values | If there are no common values, there can be no image of the future |
| Robert Bundy | |
| core values | Fewer than ten percent of organizations around the world have clear, written, values. |
| Phil Hodges Blanchard, Ken - | |
| creativiity | When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book. |
| Robert Henri | |
| creativity | Many inventions had their birth as toys, and such critical instruments as the telescope and microscope were first conceived as playthings....It is leisure, not work, that produces the most important inventions. |
| Eric Hoffer | |
| creativity | Toynbee states that a disintegrating society is characterized by (1) creative individuals, or a creative minority, who refuse or find they can no longer be creative; and (2) a majority of members who refuse to adopt more adequate responses; and (3) basic institutions that refuse to use their capacity to help their society harmoniously reconstruct or adjust to the new challenge. |
| W. O. Tomason | |
| creativity | We do not experience ourselves as gift until we are engaged in the act of creating. |
| Elizabeth O'Conner | |
| creativity | You never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishng to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. |
| Phillip Brooks | |
| creativity | You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker. |
| Maya Angelou, Poet | |
| creativity | Always be on the lookout for ideas. Be completely indiscriminate as to the source. Get ideas from customers, children, competitors, and cab drivers. |
| Jeffrey J. Fox | |
| deadlines | I love deadlines. I love the whoosing sound they make as they go by. |
| Doug Adams | |
| diversity | Competition encourages people to resemble one another. |
| Marshall McLuhan | |
| education | Educators and futurists can prepare individuals for the future by making the different images of the future more real for them. |
| Carl Townsend | |
| education | I am continually shocked that most parents and students know that education is fundamentally irrelevant, but few of them are prepared to bring about any significant change. |
| Robert Theobald | |
| evangelism | The reason people have resisted the Gospel is that we have gone out to make people good, to help them do their duty, to impose new burdens on them, rather than calling forth the gift that is the essence of the person himself. |
| Gordon Cosby | |
| failure | Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example. |
| failure | Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. |
| Rober Kennedy | |
| faith | Some things have got to be believed to be seen. |
| Ralph Hodgson | |
| family | The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home |
| Confucious | |
| fear | Whatever frightens you, do it. That fear is a valuable key. |
| Federal budget | There are 10 exp 11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a HUGE NUMBER. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. --- Richard Feynman |
| Richard Feynman | |
| forgiveness | Anyone who angers you conquers you. |
| Sister Elizabeth Kenny | |
| formulas | There are no formulas: dating, hearing from God, hunting, and great homemade ice cream |
| PJ Musilli | |
| freedom | The person who profits most from freedom of the press, owns one. |
| freedom | Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. |
| A. J. Liebling | |
| freedom | I must create a system myself or be enslaved by another man's. |
| Blake | |
| future | The BEST way to PREDICT the future is to INVENT it. |
| Alan Kay | |
| future; vision | I must create a future to which God calls me or be enslaved by another man's future. |
| Carl Townsend | |
| geeks | You might be a geek if ... ... your "lucky number" is irrational or imaginary, ... you know more IP addresses than phone numbers, ... you list "life" as one of your hobbies, ... you can talk to your computer without being sarcastic or raising your voice, ... you try to hum to communicate with a modem --- and you succeed, ... your laptop computer costs more than your car, ... your four basic food groups: caffeine, fat, sugar, chocolate, ... you own more than three power strips, ... you have several T1-networked home PCs, GPS and linux on your Palm Pilot, etc., but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal, ... you have more toys (mostly Legos, of course) than your kids. |
| gifts | One of the greatest sources of anxiety in our lives is the resistance to the call of God that is already written within our being. We have difficulty receiving this gift, and reject the very calling of God in our lives. |
| Elizabeth O'Conner | |
| gifts | As myth and legend tells us, It is often where we stumble and fall that we find the treasure. |
| Elizabeth O'Conner | |
| gifts | Every misfit carries some of the load of making the whole more fit. |
| gifts | The person who is having the time of his life doing what he is doing has a way of calling forth the deeps of another. Such a person is Good News. He is not SAYING the good news, he IS the Good News. He is the embodiment of the freedom of the new humanity. The person who who exercises his own gift in freedom can allow the Holy Spirit to do in others what He wants to do. |
| Gordon Cosby | |
| healing | The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known. |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| healing | All healing is first a healing of the heart. |
| Carl Townsend | |
| healing | Do you want to be made well? |
| John 5:6b NKJV | |
| healing | Can't live with it, can't live without it. Sometimes it seems that humanity has chosen pain. In fact, we choose it every day. |
| Chris Seay & Greg Garrett | |
| healing | Healing is not an issue of faith, but rather an affair of the heart. If the romance and passion is there in the heart, we will have faith. |
| Carl Townsend | |
| healing | People are the gatekeepers of change and healing. It is people who have the visions and power, not the structures or the geographic locations. The reason most visions fail is that the focus is on the program, agenda, or the technology - rather than the people. God trusts his visions to people. |
| Carl Townsend | |
| healing | Myth is the name of a way of seeing, a way of knowing. Systemizing flattens, but myth restores. Myth is necessary because of what man isﾅbecause man is fundamentally mythic. His real health depends upon knowing and living his ﾅmythic nature. |
| Clyde Kilby | |
| healing | When praying for healing, ask great things of God and expect great things from God. But let us seek for that healing that really matters, the healing of the heart, enabling us to trust God simply, face God honeslty, and live triumphantly. |
| Arlo F. Newell | |
| healing | Bless the LORD, all my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities. Who heals all your diseases. |
| Ps. 103:2-4 | |
| healing | Then you called out to God in your desperate condition; he got you out in the nick of time. He spoke the word that healed you, that pulled you back from the brink of death - It's time you appreciated God's deep love. |
| The Message Psalms 107:19-20,43b | |
| healing | But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. |
| Is. 40:31 | |
| healing | For I will restore you to health and I will heal you of your wounds. |
| Jer. 30:17 | |
| Healing | The joy of becoming whole is always accompanied by tears. Every step toward a healthy body, mind and soul asks that we say goodbye to something familiar. |
| Susan Jeffers | |
| healing | You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you. |
| Matt. 5:4 (Jesus) The Message | |
| healing | My experience in Nigeria was that people had difficulty understanding preachers who didn't heal, and healers who didn't preach. These people perceived the works of healing as coming from divine power rather than from impersonal medicine. To separate preaching and healing is to perpetuate the mission philosophy of a century ago: Civilize to evangelize. |
| Charles- Kraft | |
| healing | The gospels, certainly, are not responsible for this disappearance of power in the picture of Jesus. They abound in stories of healing; but we are responsible ministers, laymen, theologians who forgot that "Savior" means ﾑhealer,ﾒ he who makes whole and sane what is broken and insane, in body and mind. |
| Paul Tillich, The New Being | |
| health | Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is. |
| heart | We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart. |
| John Eldredge | |
| helps | If it is true that we are here to help others, then what exactly ar the OTHERS here for? |
| humor | How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you are on. |
| humor | Paper is always the strongest at the perforations. |
| humor | Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes I even have trouble doing it. |
| T. Bankhead | |
| humor | Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them. |
| Anthony Haden-Guest | |
| humor | Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. |
| Erma Bombeck | |
| humor | Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him heavily to the ground on top of me. |
| Mark Twain | |
| humor | Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. |
| Mae West | |
| humor | A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. |
| Lana Turner | |
| humor | If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with bad hair. |
| Dave Barry | |
| humor | The purpose of time is to keep everything from happening all at once. It's not working. |
| Jim Paradis | |
| humor | I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it. |
| Steve Wright | |
| invention | The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" ("I found it!") but rather "hmm....that's funny...' |
| --- Isaac Asimov | |
| kairos | Kairos is an opportunity imposed upon us by God. We can grasp it, but also fail. Kairos is not our own time that we choose and arrange for ourselves, but it is the commanded opportunity, a definite step in a previously conceived plan of salvation for mankind. |
| Theodor Bovet | |
| knowledge | We do not know something until it has altered our lives. |
| laws | The Ten Commandsments are not multiple choice. |
| lawyers | The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. |
| Henry IV, ii William Shakespeare | |
| leadership | I go around the city looking for fires. Then I push 'em together and pour gasoline on 'em. |
| Dennis Blevins | |
| leadership | Vision has no force, power, or impact unless it spreads from the visionary to the visionless. |
| George Barna | |
| leadership | Quickly, I must hurry, for there go my people and I am their leader |
| O. Wilde | |
| leadership | Rather the burden of his approach was to raise questions |
| of Woolman's leadership style Greenleaf, Robert | |
| leadership | Put a frog in a boiling kettle of water and he will jump out, but if you put a frog in warm water and slowly bring it to a boil, the frog will cook to death. Today's Christian is much like this, living in a society spiraling slowly to decay yet unwilling to take the risks to change it. |
| George Barna | |
| leadership | We cannot wait passively upon the statistical play of events to decide for us which road the world is to take tomorrow. We must positively and ardently take a hand in the game ourselves. |
| Teilhard de Chardin | |
| leadership | There are whose who make things happen. There are those who watch things happen. And there are those who wonder what happened. |
| leadership | Life is like a dog-sled team. If you aren't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. |
| leadership | There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, of forbid your children to do it. |
| Monta Crane | |
| leadership | If you want to have an impact, you must be committed to a collision |
| leadership | A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. |
| Rosallynn Carter | |
| leadership | To reveal one's heart and to lead from this in love is the highest form of leadership. |
| Carl Townsend | |
| leadership | Jesus called them together and said '"You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lorded over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant. And whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave - just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to give his life as a ransom for many." |
| Matt. 20:25-28 | |
| leadership | One of the quickest wasy you can tell the difference between a servant leader and a self-serving leader is how they handle feedback, because one of the biggest fears that self-serving leaders have is to lose their position |
| and Phil Hodges Blanchard, Ken | |
| leadership | Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women. |
| Groucho Marx | |
| leadership | The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. |
| Theodore Hesburgh | |
| leadership | A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. |
| James Crook | |
| leadership | A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves. |
| Lao-Tzu | |
| leadership | A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| leadership | The first step to leadership is servanthood. |
| John Maxwell | |
| leadership | Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds. |
| leadership | The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. |
| Walter J. Lippmann | |
| leadership | Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. |
| Marian Anderson | |
| leadership | The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. |
| Max DePree | |
| leadership | Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. |
| James Baldwin | |
| leadership | Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!" -- |
| Margaret Mead | |
| leadership | A man's basic sin is his choice to offer strength only in those situations where he knows things will go well - the scariest thing for women is to offer our beauty into situations where we don't known if it will make a difference.- We are afraid. |
| John & Stassi Eldredge | |
| marriage | The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. |
| Shirley MacLaine | |
| marriage | I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. |
| Rita Rudner | |
| miracles | One of the reasons we don't see more miracles is because we don't expect more miracles. |
| Dutch Sheets | |
| miracles | Do not merely believe in miracles, rely on them. |
| miracles | I need to know that something amazing can happen. |
| Alesha Nash | |
| miracles | One of the reasons we don't see more miracles is because we don't expect them. |
| Dutch Sheets | |
| miracles | Peter never walked on the water. He walked on [in obedience to] the words of Jesus. |
| Francis Frangipane | |
| motivation | There is only one way under high Heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, Just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it. Remember, there is no other way. |
| Dale Carnegie | |
| myths | Myths there must be, since visions of the future must be clothed in im |
| William Hocking | |
| name | "I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you might know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name" |
| Isaiah 45:3 | |
| opportunity | When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. |
| Alexander Graham Bell | |
| passion | People who are passionate about spiritual matters are difficult for Americans to understand. |
| George Barna | |
| passion | A poet was once asked: "If your house was burning and you could save only one thing, what would you save?" The poet answered, "I would save the fire, for without the fire we are nothing." |
| patience | Patience is the virtue of kings and fools. What do you take me for? |
| Carl Townsend | |
| physics | I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain, but I can find ye a loophole. --- Scotty on Star Trek |
| Scotty | |
| politics | These days an education is essential for career success. Unless, of course, you run for Congress. |
| politics | The chaplains who pray for the US Senate and House or Representatives might speak a word now and then for the taxpayers. |
| politics | Oregon has the best politicians money can buy. |
| politics | I looked up the word politics in the dictionary and it's really a combination of two words - poly, which means many, and tic, which means blood suckers. |
| Jay Leno | |
| politics | Once you have made the world an end and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. |
| C.S. Lewis | |
| prayer | History belongs to the intercessors. |
| Walter Wink | |
| prayer | You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. |
| S. D. Gordon | |
| prayer | God does nothing on the earth except save in answer to believing prayer. |
| John Wesley | |
| prayer | God's giving is inseparably connected with our askingﾅ |
| Andrew Murray | |
| prayer | Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action. |
| S. D. Gordon | |
| prayer | We are working with God to determine the future. Certain things will happen in history if we pray rightly. |
| Richard Foster | |
| prayer | After asking, we tend to sit back and wait on God when He is often waiting on us. |
| Dutch Sheets | |
| prayer | For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. |
| 1 Peter 3:12 NIV | |
| prayer | We must no longer see prayer as preparation for action. Prayer must be understood as action itself, a way of responding, a potent spiritual weapon to be used in spiritual warfare against the most powerful forces in the world. Prayer is not undertaken instead of other actions, but as a foundation for all the rest of the actions we take. |
| Jim Wallis | |
| prayer | We don't wait well. We're into microwaving. God, on the other hand, is usually into marinating. |
| Dutch Sheets | |
| prayer | Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. |
| Phil. 4:6 NIV | |
| prayer | As soon as a city is saturated with prayer cells, and Christians begin to pray for the felt needs of the lost, God surprises them with almost immediate answers to prayer. In fact, prayer for the felt needs of that one-hundredth sheep is the spiritual equivalent of dialing 911. |
| Ed Silvoso | |
| prayer | The best way to pray intelligently for the unsaved, and especially those in authority, is to get to know them and to maintain contact with them in order to pray for their felt needs. |
| Ed Silvoso | |
| prayer | Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. |
| Mark 11:24 NIV | |
| prayer | The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. |
| James 5:16b NIV | |
| prayer | We must be very careful not to substitute the means for the end. Our means - our ministry - should become the stepping stones, the open doors, for actual evangelizing.... Prayer is a very important means in the salvation process. |
| Evelyn Christenson | |
| prayer | Revival praying, biblically understood, is the highest form of spiritual warfare, because when God answers, revival leads the church into powerful new advances in fulfilling the Great Commision. |
| David Bryant | |
| prayer | It is said that during the Desert Storm operation Hussein would tune into CNN to see if his Scud missiles hit their targets. Our forces uses smart bombs to specified targets. We have had too much Scud missile praying in our churches. We need more smart bomb praying. |
| Bob Becket | |
| prayer | After the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed, a company with demolition expertise was brought in to bring the rest of the building down. The top man, a Christian, told an interviewer an interesting statement. "The amount of explosive we use is not the most important issue," he said. "The most important issue is where to place the explosives." The same is true in spiritual warfare praying. The issue is not so much how much prayer, but how strategic we can make the prayer. More knowledge - either by research or revelation, enables more effective prayer. |
| George Otis | |
| prayer | I would further imagine that if I came to your church on a given Sunday morning and said to the congregation, "Let's spend the next 10 minutes in hearing testimonies of answered prayer for individuals here in the church," filling time would be no problem. The same would go for answered prayers for families, and prayers for the pastors and the church. If I asked for answered prayers for the community, however, most churches would have a hard time filling even 2 minutes, never mind 10. Many would admit they have been praying for their community for 10 years and it is worse now than it was 10 years ago. |
| C. Peter Wagner | |
| prayer | Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake. |
| Rev. 8:3-5 NIV | |
| prayer | As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools. |
| problem solving | If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. |
| Abraham Maslow | |
| problem solving | It would help in attacking my problems if I knew the location of their weakest point |
| Asheigh Brilliant | |
| purpose | All living things have this in common: They begin to live as an organism at a very definite moment, they develop according to a very definite plan, acting and reacting to their environment, and finally as an organism they vanish. The permanent factor in this processﾅ is not the matter out of which the organism is made; for this changes constantly during life, as is well known. Far more characteristic of a particular organism and the constant factor in its life is the plan according to which it is formed and evolves - is its time-phase (zeitgestalt)ﾅEach living being has its own time formation. |
| Theodor Bovet | |
| purpose | It's tough to make your mark on the world if you are an eraser head. |
| Winnie the Pooh | |
| purpose | We've got to make this stuff we're lost in look as much like home as possible. |
| purpose | You may now log in to life. Password: |
| purpose | Life is an empty canvas. Others may color or shade it, but your hand holds the brush that paints the picture of your life. |
| purpose | Unlike any other being, Man carries a deep yearning for something long lost. There is a passionate sense of adventure to discover what this is that was lost. |
| Carl Townsend | |
| purpose | It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone. |
| Eph1:11-12 The Message | |
| purpose | The absolute goal of ministry is to glorify God. |
| George Barna | |
| purpose | God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. |
| purpose | We are in the happiness business-we make magic. |
| Walt Disney | |
| purpose | A rhino can run thrity miles an hour. A rhino, however, can only see thirty feet ahead. What's at thirty-one feet, however, doesn't make any difference. |
| Erwin McManus | |
| purpose | I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. |
| Jimmy Carter | |
| purpose | Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, Where is the director? I want to see him. |
| Soren Kierkegaard | |
| purpose | They say there are two important days in a your life: the day your were born, and the day you find out why you were born. |
| Carl Townsend | |
| purpose | Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow |
| Theodore Epp | |
| religion | Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. |
| Leon Lederman | |
| research | What an Xray is to a physician, spiritual mapping is to the intercessors. |
| Harold Caballeros | |
| research | When we shared data from our research in San Jose with about 100 pastors, responses ranged from 'Shocking' to 'I was crushed,' to 'I fell on my face in prayer,' to 'I had no idea of the size of the mission field right here.' |
| Dr. James Montgomery | |
| research | Effective citywide evangelism is based first on effective prayer and partnership. I would suggest that good information is needed to pray effectively and to develop strong cooperative efforts. Let me ask you! How well do you know your city? |
| Bill Bright | |
| research | My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge |
| Hosea 4:6a | |
| research | What a shame - yes, how stupid - to decide before knowing the facts. |
| Prov. 13:10 LB | |
| research | 43% of all statistics are wrong. |
| Asheligh Brilliant | |
| research | Always draw your curves, then plot the data. |
| research | Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts -- for support rather than illumination. |
| romance | Love God and sin bravely. |
| St. Augustine | |
| romance | Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. |
| Jeanne Moreau | |
| romance | We can do no great things. Only small things with great love. |
| Mother Teresa | |
| romance | The heart does not respond to principles and programs; it seeks not efficiency, but passion. |
| Eldredge, John/Curtis, Brent | |
| romance | God's problem is not that God is unable to do certain things. God's problem is that God loves. Love complicates the life of God as it complicates every life. |
| Douglass John Hall | |
| romance | Every woman is in some way searching for or running from her beauty and every man is looking for or avoiding his strength. |
| Curtis, Brent Eldredge, John and | |
| romance | We are faced with a decision that grows wih urgency each passing day: Will we leave our small stories behind and venture forth to follow our Beloved into the Sacred Romance? The choice to become a pilgrim of the heart can happen any day and we can begin our journey from any place. |
| Curtis, Brent Eldredge, John and | |
| romance | I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you. |
| Roy Croft | |
| romance | The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. |
| Helen Keller | |
| romance | Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupeny | |
| romance | For centuries prior to our modern era, the church viewed the gospel as a romance, a cosmic drama whose themes permeated our own stories and drew together all the random scenes in a redemptive wholeness. But our rationalistic approach to life, which has dominated Western culture for hundreds of years, has stripped us of that, leaving a faith that is barely more than mere fact telling. Modern evangelicalism reads like an IRS 1040 form: It's true, all the data is there, but it doesn't take your breath away. |
| Eldredge, Jon/Curtis, Brent | |
| romance | No man at one time can be wise and love. - Robert Herrick |
| Robert Herrick | |
| romance | Love works miracle every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. |
| Marguerite De Valois | |
| romance | There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. |
| Mother Teresa | |
| romance | The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. |
| Teilhard de Chardin | |
| romance | We can do no great things; only small things with great love. |
| Mother Teresa | |
| romance | The worst prison would be a closed heart. |
| romance | Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. |
| I Corinthians 13:4-8 | |
| romance | A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. |
| Jessamyn West | |
| romance | Be here - the king is wild for you. Since he's your lord, adore him. |
| Ps. 45.11, The Message | |
| romance | There is a war going on. And the Enemy has stolen our hearts. We wake, if we wake at all, to the romance and mystery the Enemy has stolen. |
| John Eldredge | |
| romance | Every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in the great adventure, and to unveil beauty. |
| John & Stassi Eldredge | |
| romance | Mankind is like a king or queen in exile, and we cannot be happy until we have recovered our true state. |
| John & Stassi Eldredge | |
| romance | Every woman has a beauty to unvel. Every woman. Because she bears the image of God. |
| John & Stassi Eldredge | |
| romance | A woman becomes beautiful when she knows she is loved. |
| John & Stassi Eldredge | |
| romance | Love like you're never going to gt hurt; dance like nobody's looking |
| Tom Turner | |
| science fiction | Reality is for people who can't face science fiction. |
| seeing | Do you want to see? (Morpheus asks of Neo) |
| sin | Seven deadly sins: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. |
| Ghandi | |
| spiritual warfare | The Church in the West today presents too easy a target for Satan. We do not believe we are at war. We do not know where the battleground is located, and, in spite of our weapons, they are neither loaded nor aimed at the right target. We are unaware of how vulnerable we are. We are better fitted for a parade that for an amphibious landing. |
| Ed Silvoso | |
| spiritual warfare | We have met the enemy and they are us. |
| Pogo | |
| spiritual warfare | Theoden: I will not risk open war! Aragorn: Open war is upon you whether you risk it or not. |
| J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings, film) | |
| spiritual warfare | Three eternal truths: things are not what they seem, the world is at war, and each of us has a crucial role to play. |
| John Eldredge | |
| spiritual warfare | The story of your life is the story of a long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it. |