When you strengthen others by increasing self-determination and developing competence, they are more likely to give it their all and exceed their own expectations.

Read your plan out loud twice a day and make sure you have full faith in yourself.

In real community people know each other; they relate in ways only God’s Spirit makes possible.

Titanic is more hopeful, less cynical than The Ship of Fools, suggesting that a few can transcend their foolishness and victimization to live full, meaningful lives.

One out of four patients we interviewed could not recall anyone they had felt safe with as a child. We checked “nobody” on our work sheets and did not comment, but we were stunned. Imagine being a child and not having a source of safety, making your way into the world unprotected and unseen.

Suffering brings into focus what my soul most deeply yearns for and I am directed to God. I learn to depend on Him.

Only if you can trust your system, only if you really know that everything will be taken care of, will your brain let go and let you focus on the task at hand.

Chaos may rattle you, but order can kill you.

The real problem isn’t our limited time. The real problem is that we’ve inherited, and feel pressured to live by, a troublesome set of ideas about how to use our limited time. We assume this will help optimize our short time on earth. Instead, the opposite happens. These time management ideals are pretty much guaranteed to make things worse.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.