"If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?" - Benjamin Franklin

Riches

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks

Power

"If every persona in the world had adequate food, housing, income; if all men were equal; if every possible social evil and injustice were done away with, men would still need one thing: Christ!" - J. W. Hyde

Christ

"As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace He will be in the furnace with them." - Charles Spurgeon

Testing

"Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stomp comparing! There's plenty of room in the forest." - Dr. Charles Swindoll

Family

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of Heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Direction

"When we wonder about the next big thing, we look for that answer to come from somewhere else. We're outsourcing the future…

• storytelling to Hollywood
• Innovation to Apple
• Care of the poor to the government
• Relationships to Facebook
  I believe the church has the talent and resources to once again become influencers of culture and agents of change. Instead of waiting for the future, we can create the future. But we're going to have to change the way we think." - Bobby Gruenewald

Culture

"With cultural Christianity in a free fall, I see a rise in robust believers and healthy churches." - Ed Stetzer

Cultural Christianity

The church in America has become like a bear fed by tourists, Ed Stetzer said, because of so-called seekers willing to return to church to recapture their childhood religious memories.

"What happens when you feed the bear is eventually it can't fend for itself. I think the people of the church have to learn to fend for themselves by going out and proclaiming the gospel, not counting on a really cool church to preach the gospel for them." - Ed Stetzer

Church

"The world is sliding backwards." - Hillary Clinton (U.S. Secretary of State, releasing the 2011 International Religious Freedom Report, which notes that blasphemy, apostasy, and defamation laws are increasingly being used by governments against religious minorities.)

World

"Apparently, weak research that comes to the 'right' conclusions is more acceptable than stronger studies that offer heretical results." - Christian Smith (prominent sociologist of religion, defending fellow sociologist Mark Regnerus against heated criticism and an investigation of Regnerus's research on children whose parents had same-sex relationships)

Research

"The most under-covered story these days is the sustained assault by Islamist terrorists on Christians." - Jeffrey Goldberg

Islam