“Remember, if you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.”
Greg Mckeown
(from Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less)
“It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.”
Greg Mckeown
“Sometimes what you don’t do is just as important as what you do.”
Greg Mckeown
3 End-of-Day Questions:
What went well?
What could have been better?
What will I change for tomorrow?
“You look at me in this wheelchair, paralyzed for 52 years, and most people would think, Oh, you’re looking forward to your new body. And yeah, that’s one of those fringe benefits. But I’m looking forward to the new heart; a heart free of manipulating others with precisely timed phrases; a heart free of fudging the truth; a heart free from hogging the spotlight, believing my own press releases… a heart free of not believing the best of others; a heart free of caving into fear or anxiety about the future. I can’t wait to have a heart free of sin.”
Joni Eareckson Tada
“Appreciate what you have before it turns into what you had.”
“It’s never too late to start doing what is right. Forget the past. Today is a new day. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Starting is half done.”
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact, please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore, will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death? I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
Thomas Merton
(from Thoughts in Solitude)
“Grace is opposed to earning, but it is not opposed to effort because effort is action and earning is attitude. That difference is very important.”
Dallas Willard
“The Gospel eliminates earning, not effort; merit gained, not muscle applied; penance, not repentance; worldly sorrow, not godly sorrow; dead works, not working for God’s glory.”
Scotty Smith
Finally, I found these words by Alan Noble to be wise. In case you aren’t aware of who Alan is, he is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Christ and Pop Culture and an advisor for the AND Campaign. He has written for The Atlantic, Vox, BuzzFeed, The Gospel Coalition, Christianity Today, and First Things. He is also the author of Disruptive Witness, and You Are Not Your Own.
“You can read and even encourage other people to read books you don’t completely agree with. I don’t know why this needs to be said in the Year of Our Lord 2023, but here we are. Actually, I do know why: because a virulent anti-intellectualism driven by paranoia and tribalism has infected the church. And guess what: you can read people you don’t agree with, and you don’t have to publicly announce your disagreement. Whatever your tribe is, I give you permission to read books without doing ‘Public Announcements of Intellectual Purity.’ You can even read my books.”
Alan Noble