"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." - Miyamoto Musashi
Perception
"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement." - Mabel Newcomber
Achievement
"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from things that are foul." - Frances E. Willard
“Temperance is reason's girdle, and passion's bride, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue.” - Jeremy Taylor
Temperance
Suffering
“We need to pay attention to what we are learning about God in the darkness because the darkness is where our relationship with Him is tested. The darkness is where we learn the truth that God will be faithful.” – Jan Dravecky “Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be
"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them." - Colton
"The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own." - J. Peitt-Senn
"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate." - George William Russell
Hate
"Popularity is fleeting. It's not real." - George W. Bush
Popularity
"If the Word, rightly translated and handled, offends us, we are wrong." - P. K.
Bible
A source of training, encouragement and vision for building a healthy small group ministry in your church that will transform lives through community.
Small Groups
Suffering
“We must never mistake the process for the result…there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn’t going to stop with the process; He wants to produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor; weakness leads to power. This is God’s way of doing things.” – Warren W. Wiersbe
"The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them." - V. Raymond Edman
Meekness
"Human nature being what it is, the man of God may soon adopt an air of constant piety and try to appear what the public thinks he is. The fixed smile and hollow tones of the professional cleric are too well known to require further mention.
All this show of godliness, by the squeeze of circumstances and through no fault of the man himself, may become a front behind which the man hides, a plaintive, secretly discouraged and lonely soul. Here is no hypocrisy, no intentional double living, no actual desire to deceive. The man has been mastered by the circumstances. He has been made the keeper of other people's vineyards but his own vineyard has not been kept. So many demands have been made upon him that they have long ago exhausted his supply. He has been compelled to minister to others while he himself is in desperate need of a physician."- A. W. Tozer
Pastoral Ministry
"There is no magic in small plans. In ministry I think of the world. Anything less would not be worthy of Christ." - Henretta Meirs
Ministry