Morning Briefings

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody without first taking from somebody else.

– Pastor Adrian Rogers

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

– Romans 15:4

When my time comes, forget the wrong that I’ve done. Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed. Don’t resent me, and when you’re feeling empty, keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest. Leave out all the rest.

– Linkin Park
Leave Out All the Rest

Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important?

– Hermann Hesse
Journey to the East

Your power to choose the direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future and to powerfully influence the rest of creation. It is the one gift that enables us to elevate our life to higher and higher levels.

– Steven R. Covey
The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

A prince in pauper’s rags is still a prince; so is a child of God always a child of God, and the only identity and label I need.

– Hernan M. Hormillosa from his blog
Ruminations

In all I do, let me be harmless. In all I do, let me take God’s hand. I am not alone, even when dealing with my own mistakes

– Hugh Prather
Spiritual Notes to Myself

It is important to keep a still place in the ‘marketplace.’ This still place is where God can dwell and speak to us. It is also the place from which we can speak in a healing way to all the people we meet in our busy days. Without that still place we start spinning.

– Henri J.M. Nouwen regarding Psalm 46:10
Bread for the Journey

Without the entrepreneur economics are barren; they’re dead.

– George Gilder from
Call of the Entrepreneur

I agree with Siddhartha, our wise friend from the East who once said: ‘Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.’

– Hermann Hesse
Journey to the East