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“Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" Annie Dillard, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”
George Washington

“If you do not connect with others, influence is out of the question.”
John C. Maxwell

“In fact, it was our second president, John Adams, who said of our thoroughly researched and developed governing document, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Ben Carson

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self assertive humble. ...truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis that reconciles the two.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Reward only finished work: It’s good to praise effort, but you should never reward it.
John C. Maxwell

“There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
John F. Kennedy

“Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.”
Rick Warren

“When people follow a leader because they have to, they will do only what they have to. People don’t give their best to leaders they like least. They give reluctant compliance, not commitment. They may give their hands but certainly not their heads or hearts.”
John C. Maxwell

“We don't use guns because we don't have guns”
Mahatma Gandhi

“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”
Mother Teresa

“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.”
C.S. Lewis

“What you believe identifies who you are.”
John C. Maxwell

“I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.”
C.S. Lewis

“Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.”
Napoleon Hill

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