Morning Briefings

There is a big difference between an image and a reputation. An image is usually short term and can be an illusion. Public images are often fabricated and untrue. A reputation is what you actually are (both good and bad) and is built on a foundation of truth.

– Mike Paul, Top Ten Reputation Management Tips for 2009 from
Reputation Doctor blog

There’s only one despair worse than ‘God, I blew it’ — and that’s ‘God, I blew it again.’

– Marianne Williamson
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) points to a great host of people, Jews and Gentiles, who will be saved when Jesus physically returns to earth.

– christcenteredmall.com

Don’t you see these are the days, right now, mid-adventure, that will mean the most to you once your dreams come true?

– Mike Dooley
Notes From the Universe

Every important battle is fought and refought. You may wonder if such a struggle, endless and of uncertain outcome, isn’t more than humans can bear. But all of history suggests that the human spirit is well fitted to cope with just that kind of world.

– John Gardner
from a 1993 speech

We cannot dream of a Utopia in which all arrangements are ideal and everyone is flawless. Life is tumultuous–an endless losing and regaining of balance, a continuous struggle, never an assured victory. Nothing is ever finally safe.

– John Gardner
from a 1993 speech

Do you not say, ‘four more months and then the harvest?’ I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for the harvest.

– John 4:35

Why do the righteous suffer? Virtually every meaningful conversation I have ever had with people on the subject of God and religion has either started with this question, or gotten around to it before long.

– Harold S. Kushner
When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Many names are used for the Feast of Trumpets. The most common name among Jews is Rosh Hashanah, which means ‘head of the year.’

– Seven Feasts of Our L-rd!
cbclc.org

Norman Borlaug–arguably the greatest American of the 20th century–died late Saturday. The very personification of human goodness, Borlaug saved more lives than anyone who has ever lived. In 1999, the Atlantic Monthly estimated that Borlaug’s efforts–combined with those of the many developing-world agriculture-extension agents he trained and the crop-research facilities he founded in poor nations–saved the lives of one billion human beings.

– Gregg Easterbrook, The Wall Street Journal
The Man Who Defused the ‘Population Bomb’