Morning Briefings

Hope is often the most important gift we can impart to each other. When you’ve suffered a great deal and yet manage to emerge with your strength and hope intact, you can be of tremendous assistance to others.

– Anthony DeStefano
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To

Poll Question: Is Prayer a Regular Part of Your Life As an Entrepreneur? 82.91 percent answered yes in the 2007 survey.

–
Startup Nation

If anyone lacks in wisdom, let him ask God, who is always ready to give a bountiful supply to all.

– James 1:5

Oops, sorry: Charter Communications officials believe a software error during routine maintenance caused the company to delete the contents of 14,000 customer e-mail accounts.

– Jim Salter, AP, as reported by
Techmeme.com

It doesn’t matter if you’re the greatest guitar player in the world, if you’re not enlightened, forget it.

– George Harrison from
Zen Guitar

When the spirit is present, there is no job that doesn’t become noble and holy. There is a way of drawing cartoons, or of working with wood, or emptying bins which shows that love has been placed there, as well as attention to detail and a little spark of something personal–and there is no human understanding or task in which such a personal ingredient cannot flourish. The other way, that of loathing one’s work and despising it instead of redeeming it and transforming it, is wrong.

– Francis Fernandez
In Conversation with God

Every godly leader understands she is just a servant using her natural gifts while waiting to be ushered into God’s purpose and presence.

– Victoria Lowe
10 Spiritual Principles of Successful Women

As Economy Slows, Reputation Takes on Added Meaning: Rushing to the scene are lots of experts with advice about sustaining or repairing a corporate reputation in tough times. Their tips may seem obvious, or even preachy in boom times, but when the economy stalls, nervous bosses are more eager for help.

– George Anders, The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2008

When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’

– Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Have a Dream…(speech)

For better or worse, it’s highly likely that many of the events and ideas about your life haven’t worked out exactly according to plan.

– Tony Dungy
Quiet Strength Men’s Study Bible