When you spend all your time firefighting, there’s little time or energy left for planning. When all you do is react, there’s not enough time to do the hard mental work of figuring out whether you can accept new work.

Trusting the process, even without knowing how things will happen, allows the Universe to orchestrate outcomes in ways far beyond our imagination.

The Biblical understanding of love does not preclude deep emotion. As we will see, a marriage devoid of passion and emotional desire for one another doesn’t fulfill the Biblical vision. But neither does the Bible pit romantic love against the essence of love, which is sacrificial commitment to the good of the other.

Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.

To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.

The life of discipleship can only be maintained so long as nothing is allowed to come between Christ and ourselves—neither the law, nor personal piety, nor even the world.

Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.

The problem with investment advisers is that they tend to be quite expensive and are often conflicted. Many investment advisers will charge you 1 percent of your assets per year or more for the service of establishing an account with an appropriately diversified portfolio. In addition, some advisers may be conflicted and will use investment instruments on which they earn an additional commission. If you feel you must get an investment adviser, make sure that adviser is a “fee only” adviser.

The most valuable thing you have to offer is yourself - your character, personality, and values. Success comes from authenticity. This reminds me to focus on cultivating who I am.

A story needs a sense of oneness — unity — to feel like a satisfying and complete expression. It needs a single theme — a spine — something to unite it into a coherent work. But a story also needs a level of two-ness, a dimension of duality, to create tension and the possibility of movement.