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21 " If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours. "
― Mark Batterson , A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
22 " Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. "
23 " ...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom. "
24 " As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other! "
25 " When Scripture says, "As a man thinks, so is he," it is raw truth. How we approach life and react to its vagaries determines the bulk of our character. How we love is locked into how we think about it. What angers us is triggered by how we think. It is between our ears that we decide how easily offended we will be. When it comes to harsh words from others, whether my skin absorbs like cotton or deflects like Teflon is a decision I make. All of that happens in a three-pound organ five-and-a-half inches across called my brain. In a very real sense, my world begins and ends between my ears. I don't have to be brain-dead to be brain-defeated. "
26 " Our value as human beings has everything to do with whose we are and what He does through us. "
― Richard Foth, , A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
27 " Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths. "
28 " We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are...if someone has a critical eye, they will always find something to be critical about. And if they have a grateful eye, they will find something to celebrate even in the worst of circumstances...Having a "good eye" in life changes how you see yourself and everything around you... your focus determines your reality. "
29 " You may be the only Bible some people ever read. So the question is: Are you a good translation? "
30 " We were meant for more than a safe ride when God placed us here. Any part of this life that offers more, requires more, or asks more of us than we are used to is an opportunity to grow more, dream more, and be more than we are now. "
31 " We should live with a holy anticipation of what’s around the corner. "
32 " The healthiest, holiest, and happiest people on the planet are those who laugh at themselves the most. "
33 " When you rise to the challenge of adventurous living, your days will be richer and your soul will be fuller. There will be more risks, more dares, and more obstacles. And in return, there will be more memories that started out as dreams. Adventure doesn’t happen by accident. It has to be intentional. "
34 " Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster. "
35 " Our lives are not just measured in minutes. They are measured in moments—moments when the minutes stand still. "
36 " Jesus didn’t carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word. "
37 " Experiences are the currency of a life well lived. "
38 " The leading cause of failure is mismanaged success. And the leading cause of success is well-managed failure. "
39 " As the interview ended, I asked him one last question: “If you had one thing to say about God and man, what would you say?” He paused, switched to English, and said, “Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him. "
40 " Years ago my friend Alan Groff shared this definition: “love is the accurate estimate and the adequate supply of another person’s need. "