May 2011
1 post
“A generation raised on Maxim sees women as conquests and children as an inconvenience. A generation devoted to Jackass embodies it. A generation obsessed with fantasy football gives itself over to a fantasy world, where games and players replace serious pursuits and leadership of others. Men are in trouble, with Christian men falling prey to many of these lesser things.” Letter to a frustrated...
March 2011
1 post
“I’m a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I...”
– Fellowship of the Unashamed - author unknown
October 2010
1 post
Frank Chimero - How to Have an Idea →
Haven’t posted in a while, but this was too good to pass up.
August 2010
2 posts
“[In of myself,] I am more flawed and sinful than I ever dared believe, but [in...”
– Tim Keller
“Another example: the MBA. A lot of entrepreneurs get an MBA because they are...”
– Seth Godin
March 2010
1 post
Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board →
Easily the coolest “status” board I’ve ever seen.
January 2010
2 posts
“People at the top don’t work harder than you. They work MUCH MUCH harder.”
– Malcolm Gladwell (via Joshua Blankeship)
“He did not suffer fools lightly and could barely stand those who feared moral...”
– Stephen Mansfield in his book The Search for God and Guinness quoting Martin Luther
October 2009
6 posts
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn...”
– Arti Linkletter (via Cameron Moll)
September 2009
6 posts
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Teddy Roosevelt
“The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary...”
– Tim Keller
August 2009
5 posts
Some health care numbers
I have never entered into political discourse on this site, and I rarely agree with mrgan’s political stances, however this is certainly interesting.
mrgan:
Every health care debate swings between emotional and number-based arguments. On the emotional front, those in favor of universal, government-backed health care empathize with the uninsured, while the free-market proponents warn...
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Sir Francis Bacon
July 2009
7 posts
“Can I make an observation? Inexperience is both a liability and an asset. And...”
– Mark Batterson
June 2009
1 post
“The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and...”
– Lao-Tzu (via kawasaki)
May 2009
1 post
“Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. Grab life by...”
– Lion Chasers Manifesto - Mark Batterson
April 2009
2 posts
“Every man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.” - hence my “hero to...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
– Albert Schweitzer
March 2009
7 posts
“Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for us.”
– Galatians 3 (The Message)
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way...”
– Jack Handey
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
– Ansel Adams
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or...”
– John Adams, 1770
“The University of Chicago economist and Nobel laureate Robert Lucas declared...”
– Richard Florida’s analysis of how different areas of the United States are going to be affected by the current financial crisis (via Kottke)
“Some people fancy themselves as being “creative”, or...”
– Steven Furtik
February 2009
7 posts
“Leadership is the ability to disappoint people at a rate they can absorb.”
– Ron Carucci
“Hope requires blood. So what are you hoping for? All I need to do is to look at...”
– Dan Allender
“Ok. We did crash. We were on this crazy island and we waited for rescue but...”
– Hurley explaining the entire history of LOST in once sentence
“The impact God has planned for us doesn’t occur when we’re pursuing...”
– Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales