Archive of Quotes Listed by Topic
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Laughter
"If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there." --Martin Luther--
"Of all the things God created, I am often most grateful he created laughter." 
--Charles Swindoll--
"He who has learned how to laugh at himself shall never cease to be entertained." --John Powell--
"He who laughs, lasts." --Mary Pettibone Poole
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." --Victor Borge--
Laws
Parker's' Law: "Beauty is only skin deep--but ugly goes clear to the bone."
Chamberlain's Law: "Everything tastes more or less like chicken."
Leadership
"Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence." 
-- Bernard Montgomery (British Field Marshall) --
"You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you everywhere if only out of curiosity." 
-- Colin Powell --
"When it comes to Church leadership, some members rise to the occasion, while others merely hit the ceiling."
-- anon --
"Leadership is about God releasing his outlandish hopes and dreams through a certain personality, in a certain context, for a certain time, with a certain people....ultimately leadership is relational."
--Ron Martoia, Morph!, 38--
"Spiritual Leadership is moving people on to God's agenda."
--Henry Blackaby, Spiritual Leadership, 20--
Learning
"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum" 
--Menander (342-292 B.C.)--
"I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught." 
--Winston Churchill--
Life
"Life is too important to take seriously." --Corky Siegel--
"How we spend our days is -- of course -- how we spend our lives."
-- Annie Dillard --
"It is more difficult to spend a day well than to write a book."
-- Ancient Polish Proverb --
Listening
"It takes a great man to make a good listener." --Arthur Helps--
"It is a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." --Dick Cavett--
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
-- Woodrow Wilson --
Listening (to God)
"I suspect that the difference between a person of seasoned prayer and one of smaller prayer experience is the amount of time they spend talking rather than listening." Calvin Miller, Out of the Depths, 110
"Those whose prayers are unending monologues make themselves a giant mouth while making God a small ear. The best prayers are dialogues of rapport.  Presence is being 'with God.' It is neither talking nor listening. It is abiding in the presence of God. Rapport treasures oneness so much it will not make of prayer two modes--one mode of talking and one of listening." Calvin Miller, Out of the Depths, 110
Lost
"I'm in a phone booth at the corner of walk and don't walk." --anon.--
Love
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."
--G.K. Chesterton--
"The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love."
-- Henry Scougal --
Lying
"A lie travels around the world while Truth is putting on her boots." 
--Charles Spurgeon--
"I was not lying, I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."
-- Richard Nixon --



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