Quotation listing

Carl's Quotation File in Keyword Order

Keyword	Quote


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.
	Ashleigh 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
calling	All the leader's cues cannot come from the external environment. The drive has to be fueled by the call and not dependent ultimately on the opinions of others, even significant others.
	Reggie McNeal
calling	The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him.

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
change	We have to take the first step as if there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us. He will not; but immediately we arise we find He is there.
	Oswald Chambers
change	The greatest breakthrough today is where the Spirit of God comes down and attaches Himself to the broken and humble. Itﾒs where God goes when He wants pleasure.
	George Otis, Jr.
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
chaos	God preserves His order, despite our chaos.
	Elizabeth Achtemeir
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
church growth	Today's church is incapable of responding to the present moral crisis. It must reinvent itself or face virtual oblivian by mid-21st century.
	George Barna
church growth	ﾅthe Church in America is losing influence and adherents faster than any othr major institution in the nation.
	George Barna
church growth	The current church culture in North America is on life support. It is living off the work, money, and energy of previouse generations from a previous world order.
	Reggie McNeal
church growth	In the face of these waves of change, the institutional church in America has two options. Either it will go about its business as usual - and be swallowed up by obsolescence and die by default. Or the church will choose to die - and thus find life. .
	Mike Regel and Mark Schulz
church growth	The Church, as the Body of Christ, has the business of liberating the captives, recovering the sight of the blnd, enabling the lame to walk, bringing the good news to the poor, and (yes) raising the dead.
	Donald McGavran
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
community	Being created in the image of God means, in part, that we have been prewired by God to hunger for community. Human beings come to discover who we are only in relationship to others. All of us since Adam have been born into a relationship web.
	Reggie McNeal
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
education	In the Newtonian world, the teacher drives the learningﾅ.Students can access more information on the Internet than the teacher can present. The learner now drives the teacher.
	Reggie McNeal
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
evangelism	There is, in Jesus' ministry, no tension between saving from sin and saving from physical ailment, between the spiritual and the social.
	David Bosch
evangelism	Generation X is the first American generation in which over half of its population begin their religious pilgrimage from some starting point other than a Christian worldview.
	Reggie McNeal
evangelism	Jesus did not die for an idea, a philosophy, or a religion. He died for your heart.

evangelism	You have not chose me but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain.
	John 14:15-16
evangelism	It is unnatural for Christianity to be popular.
	Billy Graham
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.
	Robert Kennedy
faith	Some things have got to be believed to be seen.
	Ralph Hodgson
faith	Most of the important things in the world have been accomplshed by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
	Dale Carnegie
faith	Be very careful never to forget what you have seen the Lord do for you. Do not let these things escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren.
	Deuteronomy 4:9
faith	People may doubt what you say, but they believe what you do.

faith	Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.
	Charles Spurgeon
faith	When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly.
	Patrick Overton
faith	The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.ﾔ
	Elie Wiesel
faith	Prayer is the key to Heaven, but faith unlocks the door.ﾔ

faith	Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
	Saint Augustine
faith	Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe
	St. Augustine
faith	Faith is not a conscious thing; it springs from a personal relationship and is the unconscious result of believing someone.
	Oswald Chambers
faith	We have to take the first step as if there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us. He will not; but immediately if we arise we find He is there.
	Oswald Chambers
faith	And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful that the risk it took to blossom.
	Anais Nin
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.

fear	Fear has no power except what you give it.

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
freedom	We've learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change, The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern for human rights, and that encompasses a great many people and countries. Those of us who live in a democracy have a responsibility to be the voice for those whose voices are stilled.
	Mary Travers
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
healing	Aren't the greatest joys and memories of your life associated with family, friendships, or falling in love? Aren't your deepest wounds somehow connected to someone else, to a failure of relationship? That you were loved but are no longer, or that you never have been chosen?
	John Eldredge
healing	The soul is healed by being with children.
	Fyodor Dostoevsky
healing	ﾕIn life you can walk away from any person. place or thing Except yourself

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
heart	Your heart is free - have the courage to follow it.
	Braveheart's father to Braveheart
heaven	It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this one. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth "Thrown in." Aim at earth and you will get neither.
	C.S. Lewis
heaven	Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received, but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.
	Francis of Assisi
heaven	I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most profitable explanation is that I was made for another world.
	C.S. Lewis
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	"How are you doing? "Pretty good, under the circumstances." "What are you doing under the circumstances?"
	Tommy Tenny
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
humor	You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
	George Burns
illusion	When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
	P.D. Ouspensky
inspiration	Itﾒs hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
	Calvin & Hobbes
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
leadership	..world that has been pulled over our eyes to blind us to the truth
	Morpheus
leadership	All leaders limp. Leaders become leaders, in part, because they are willing to wrestle with who they are, who they want to become, how they can overcome some deficit in their own lives.They often need to achieve, need to be admired, even loved, need to bring order to some chaos that is within them.
	Reggie McNeal
leadership	The Reformation will be completed when the clegy-laity distinction has )in terms of ministry empowerment) finally yields to the biblical doctrine of the universal priesthood of all believers.The work of God will finally return to the whole people of God.
	Reggie McNeal
leadership	The only ones among you who will be truly happen are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
	Albert Schweitzer
leadership	We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
	William Ward
leadership	People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.
	John Maxwell
leadership	Being a leader who serves is very different from being a servant leader
	Isabel Lopez
leadership	The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve the leader, but the number of people served by the leader.
	John Maxell (adapted)
leadership	As leaders shift their focus to customers and quality, they realize that the old authoritarian leadership style does not work anymore. To achieve quality, service, and rapid response, leaders must utilize all available talent. They must find ways to inspire, involve, and empower employees. They must create a work environment that encourages commitment, innovation, and cooperation. Instead of evaluating, leaders now coach. Instead of doing, they delegate. Instead of telling, they facilitate. No one is expected to boss anyone. Everyone is expected to participate.
	Suzanne Zoglio
Leadership	The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.
	Edwards Deming
leadership	A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take on himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erractic quality of leadership.
	John Updike
leadership	Whenever God is involved, the epilogue is not mysterious. God wins.
	Eric McManus
leadership	It is not so much that we live in a post-Christian world; but rather we live in a post-secular world.
	Carl Townsend
leadership	The greatest breakthrough today is where the Spirit of God comes down and attaches Himself to the broken and humble. It is where God goes when H wants pleasure.
	George Otis, Jr.
leadership	We have to take the first step as if there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us. He will not; but immediately we arrise to find He is there.
	Oswald Chambers
leadership	Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
	Thomas Edison
leadership	Leadership development that supports apostolic leadership and missional renewal of the church pays attention to four areas of learning: paradigm issues, microskill development, resource development, and pesonal growth.
	Reggie McNeal
leadership	In this historic moment, we live caught in a worldview that no longer works and a new one that seems too bizarre to contemplate.
	Margaret Wheatley
leadership	When on realizes one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
	P.D. Ouspensk, Russian Journalist
leadership	The leader's task is to seek the Kingdom, declare what is found, and then give it away!
	Jack Taylor
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
place	Find a place (inside) where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
	Joseph Campbell
place	He who once had the experience of belonging to place, always finds a place for himself afterwards; whereas he who has been deprived of it, searches everywhere in vain.
	Paul Tournier
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.

prayer	Any church without a well-organized and systematic prayer program is simpley operating a religious treadmill.
	Paul Billheimer
prayer	God does nothing but in answer to prayer.
	Wesley
prayer	When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you z very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
	Oswald Chambers
prayer	Sometimes God puts us through the disciplines of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and then we are put into the shadow of God's hand unteil we learn to hear Him.
	Oswald Chambers
prayer	The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

prayer	Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
	Oswald Chambers
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
	Ashleigh 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
purpose	With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
	Chesterton
purpose	The world has lost its story. How that happened is quite a story as well.
	John Eldridge
purpose	Man's chief end is to gloriy God and to enjoy Him forever.

purpose	Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
	Kenneth Hildebrand
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.
	Ashleligh 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	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 get hurt; dance like nobody's looking
	Tom Turner
romance	In the area of love, it is tough to lead others where you have not been. The capacity to love, in huge part, depends on your having been loved.
	Reggie McNeal
romance	God's problem is not that God is not able to do certain things. God's problem is that God loves. Love complicates the life of God as it complicates every life.
	Douglas John Hall
romance	Rescuing the human heart is the hardest mission in the world.
	John Eldridge
romance	I never knew how to worship, until I knew how to love.
	Henry Ward Beecher
romance	We have all had times on the mount when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. The test of our spiritual life is the power to descent; if we have power to rise only, something is wrong.
	Oswald Chambers
romance	Where there is great love there are always miracles.
	Willa Cather
romance	Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives. It's why God created us. Not simply to believe in him, though that is a good beginning. . . God created us for intimate fellowship with himself, and in doing so he established the goal for our existance - to know him, love him, and live our lives in an intimate relationship with him.
	John Eldridge
romance	Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - A. W. Pinero
	A.W. Pinero
romance	God is a reckless lover.

romance	There is nothing lost that may be found if sought.
	Shakespeare
romance	It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
	Antoine De Sant-Exupery
romance	To reveal one's heart and to lead from this in love is the highest form of leadership.
	Carl Townsend
science fiction	Reality is for people who can't face science fiction.

seeing	Do you want to see? (Morpheus asks of Neo)

servanthood	The rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage - he has little competition.
	Andrew Carnegie
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.
	John Eldredge
spiritual warfare	Satan builds his strongholds in the shadows of our strengths.
	Tom White
spiritual warfare	Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
	John Eldredge's nine-year old son
spiritual warfare	Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
	Blaine Eldridge
spiritual warfare	If we are going to made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes.
	Oswald Chambers
spiritual warfare	We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them.
	Robert Moffat
stewardship	Now all of Christianity is agreeing that they were wrong about something so basic as God's first instruction to the human race on how people should behave and act here in the earthly world. They are saying they were wrong for two thousand years and that now dominion has to be redefined in terms of stewardship. This is a revolution, a theological revolution. It's a profound transformation.
	Jeremy Rifkin
success	Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know.
	--- Sassan Tat
success	You have to hnor failure because failure is just the negative space around success
	Nelson at Pixar
taxes	Capital punishment is when the government taxes you to get capital so that it can go into business in competition with you, and then taxes your profit so it can pay its losses.

taxes	A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon it adds up to real money!
	Everett Dirkson
taxes	The feudal serfs paid about half as much of their income to their king as the modern American pays to his government.

technology	Technology marches on ... over you or through you, take your choice.

technology	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
	Arthur C. Clarke
transformation	The greatest breakthrough today is where the Spirit of God comes down and attaches Himself to the broken and humble. It is where God goes when H wants pleasure.
	George Otis, Jr.
trust	May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit
	Rom. 15:13
values	If there are no common values, there can be no image of the future.
	Robert Bundy
values	ﾓBe respectful of the opinions and feelings of other people. Recognize their virtues; donﾒt look for their faults. Look for their strengths and their virtues, and you will find strength and virtues that will be helpful in your own life.
	Gordon Hinckley
vision	For the revelation [vision] awaits an appointed time,it speaks [as to kindle a fire] of the end.Though it linger, wait for it.it will certainly come and will not delay.
	Habakkuk 2:3 NIV
vision	What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.
	Hellen Keller
vision	We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
	Uber Morlock in Movie: The Time Machine
vision	If your vision is for a year, plant wheat. If your vision is for a decade, plant trees. If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people.
	Chinese Proverb
vision	Individuals and churches that are content to operate solely on the basis of their mission in life generally flounder because their perspective is too broad, too ill-defined. Those that focus on their vision as marching orders have a much higher chance of success because they establish more realistic priorities and because they are more likely to be people-centered.
	George Barna
vision	For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.
	C. Peter Wagner
vision	Soon after the completion of Disney World someone said, "Isn't it too bad that Walt Disney didn't live to see this!" Mike Vance, creative director of Disney Studios replied. "He did see it - that's why it's here."

vision	The future does not belong to those who are content with todayﾅ Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
	Robert Kennedy
vision	Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams
	Robert Greenleaf
vision	I think there is a world market for about five computers.
	Thomas Watson
vision	If you stay committed, your dreams can come true. I left home at 17 and had nothing but rejections for 25 years. I wrote more than 20 screen plays.
	Michael Blake
vision	If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out they would have had opportunity to return. But as it was, they desired a better country.
	Hebrews 11:15
vision	Men and women do not posses visions of the future. They are possesed by them.
	Robert Bundy
vision	And the Lord said to me, "Write my vision on a billboard, large and clear, so that anyone can read it while running and rush to tell others."
	Habakkuk 2b
vision	The absolute goal of vision for ministry is to glorify God.
	George Barna
vision	In Alice in Wonderland, Alice gets to a fork in the road and she asks the cat. "Which way do I go?" "Where are you going?," asks the cat. "I don't know." "Then it really doesn't make any difference," replies the cat.

vision	The Church is, by definition, open to all. A vision statement always focuses, and therefore excludes. There will always, then, be some fallout. Some people will always react to forming a vision statement because of the exclusion sense.

vision	True visionaries are never lukewarm.
	George Barna
vision	The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.
	John Schaar
vision	Tell me what your vision of the future and I will tell you what you are.
	Frederick L. Polak
vision	The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and destination.
	John Schaar
vision	It all comes from the mind. I've seen the most incredible success storiesﾅbecause a person had a dream and it was so powerful no one could touch it. He'd feel it, believe it, think about it all day and night. That would inspire him to do things necessary to get the results he wanted.
	Arnold Schwarzenegger
vision	The pilot light is out on my flame of ambition.
	Winnie the Pooh
vision	The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
	Winston Churchill
vision	Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
	Doug Larson
vision	God does not place timetables on how quickly He expects us to capture his vision. In fact, He may take more pleasure in our attempt to know His mind than in our eventual ability to capture that insight. The key is that we develop a life-style characterized by the vision-capturing process- that is a life in which He is preeminent, in which our desires are to know and please Him and our activities center around our relationship with Him."
	George Barna
vision	The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.
	Francis Crick
vision	People will never attain what they cannot see themselves doing.
	Karen Ford
vision	That which holds our attention determines our action.
	William, Psychologist James
vision	Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray
	Henry David Thoreau
vision	People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals
	Jim Collins, Jerry Porras
vision	I have never been disabled in my dreams.
	Christopher Reeve
vision	The future belongs to those who believe in their dream.
	Elanor Roosevelt
vision	When we see God's vision, we can see the future.
	Joseph Bartman?
vision	When we connect with God's vision, everything looks different.
	Joseph Bartman?
vision	Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
	Robert Kennedy
vision	The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
	Theodore Hesburgh
vision	Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
	Carl Jung
vision	If you want to build a ship, donﾒt summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs and organise the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean
	Antoine de Saint-Exupery
vision	The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it, submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.
	Stephen Covey
vision	One of the reasons that our faith has so little impact is that it isn't connected to God's "transcendent vision."
	Christine and Tom Sine
vision	Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perceptions - what you think about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false, too.
	William Young
vision	All things are possible with God.
	Mark 10:27
vision	We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.
	Oswald Chambers
vision	God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.
	Oswald Chambers
vision	The vision is not a castle in the air, but a vision of what God wants you to be. Let Him put you on His wheel and whirl you as He likes, and as sure as God is God and you are you, you will turn out exactly in accordance with the vision. Donﾒt lose heart in the process. If you ever had the vision of God, you may try as you like to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never let you.
	Oswald Chambers
vision	Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.
	Andy Stanley
vision	Visions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.
	Andy Stanley
vision	A vision begins as a burden.
	Carl Townsend
vision	The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.
	Stephen Covey
vision	If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
	Joseph Campbell
vision	The power of transcendent vision is great that the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates [the scripting]. Submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.
	Stephen Covey
visioning	When your memories exceed your dreams you're headed for the grave.
	Jim Horsl
wandering	... Not all those who wander are lost. -- J.R.R Tolkein (The Fellowship of the Ring)
	J.R.R. Tolkein
war	We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction
	. --- General Douglas MacArthur
winning	To be sure of winning, invent your own game. Don't tell anyone the rules.
	Ashleigh Brilliant
women	A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool out of him in twenty minutes.
	Robert Frost
women	The women of Greece count their age from the marriage, not from their birth.
	Homer
women	It takes a man a lifetime to find out about one particular woman; but if he puts in, say ten years, industrious and curious, he can acquire the general rudiments of the sex.
	O. Henry
women	There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
	John Erskine
women	Her vulnerability is one of the most powerful invitations of a woman
	John Eldredge
wonder	All men wonder to see water turned to wine. Every day the earth's moisture, being drawn to the vine, is turned by the grape into wine, and no man wonders.
	Gregory the Great
writing	What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

writing	There was once a young man who desired to become a "great writer." Asked to define "great," he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!" He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.

writing	When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
	Wilson Mizner