The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.

The top priority of any manager is the well-being and success of her people.

The Christian principle that needs to be at work is Spirit- generated selflessness—not thinking less of yourself or more of yourself but thinking of yourself less. It means taking your mind off yourself and realizing that in Christ your needs are going to be met and are, in fact, being met so that you don’t look at your spouse as your savior.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Getting things done requires two basic components: defining (1) what “done” means (outcome) and (2) what “doing” looks like (action).

The only way for you to be truly free is to link your feeling to an obligation. Only if you commit yourself to loving in action, day in and day out, even when feelings and circumstances are in flux, can you truly be a free individual and not a pawn of outside forces.

The right way to think about the product development process in a Lean Startup is that it is responding to pull requests in the form of experiments that need to be run.

Reassurance is futile because it seeks to shore up a feeling, and in any given moment, it might or might not do the job. We don’t have to be victim to our feelings. They don’t have to arrive or leave of their own accord. We can choose to take actions that will generate the feelings we need.

The application of Christian principles, say, to trade unionism or education, must come from Christian trade unionists and Christian schoolmasters: just as Christian literature comes from Christian novelists and dramatists -not from the bench of bishops getting together and trying to write plays and novels in their spare time.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.