Morning Briefings

I need a sign to let me know you’re here, all of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere. I want a reason for the way things have to be. I need a hand to help build up some kind of hope inside of me.

– Calling All Angels
Train

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in humility that comes from wisdom.

– James 3:13
King James Version

Fortunate are those who take the first steps. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels–and that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy and understand.

– Paulo Coelho
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Cash is what keeps the doors open and pays the bills. As my mother used to say, ‘Sales fixes everything.’

– Guy Kawasaki
Five most important lessons I’ve learned as an entrepreneur

God hates cheating in the marketplace; he loves it when business is aboveboard.

– Eugene H. Peterson on Proverbs 11:1
The Message

Being made in the image of God invests us with a portable spirituality center. No matter where we go, so long as we carry this core identity with us, we remain spiritually impervious to the ups and downs of external circumstances.

– Naomi H. Rosenblatt and Joshua Horwitz
Wrestling with Angels

Years later, he would say that when he decided to become a professional baseball player, it was the only time he’d done something just for the money, and that he’d never do something just for the money again. He would never let the market dictate the direction of his life. The funny thing about that, now he was running a poor major league baseball team, was that his job was almost entirely about the money; where to find it, how to spend it, whom to spend it on.

– Michael Lewis on Billy Beane
Moneyball

If our faith becomes lukewarm and has no expression, God can allow us to fall. God does not want evil but may impart grace and the call to be converted.

– Father Tadeusz Dajczer
The Gift of Faith

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when they look back–and at some point everyone looks back–she will hear her heart saying, ‘What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you?’

– Paulo Coelho
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit.

– Matthew 7:18