Saturday, May 09, 2009

Random Quotes

These are notes and quotes I jotted down in my journal while at Council:

  • Competence matters: Are you better this year than you were a year ago? 5 years ago?
  • You will have to let some dreams die to let some dreams live.
  • We need sometimes to be ordinary so someone else can succeed.
  • [paraphrase] Moses spent 40 years becoming a nobody, 40 years realizing he was a nobody, and 40 years watching God use a nobody. --D.L. Moody
  • The gospel is only good news if it arrives on time.
  • Make decisions at the lowest possible level. That's leadership 101 -- Frank Potter
  • [paraphrase] My life is one long answer to the call of God --Bonhoeffer
  • If you are suffering it's because someone will follow and succeed. If you are succeeding it is because someone suffered before you. -Rev. Bennett
--Ben

1 comment:

Ariel Rainey said...

Correction : Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody, 40 years realizing he was nobody, and 40 years watching God use a nobody.