November 2011
1 post
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the...”
– Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers: The Story of Success
June 2011
1 post
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget...”
– Maya Angelou
May 2011
4 posts
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
– Swedish Proverb
“If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it...”
– Unknown
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn....”
– Ernest Hemingway.
February 2011
1 post
“…What you feel about me has nothing to do with how I feel about me.”
– Deion Sanders, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
January 2011
1 post
“Our Lord said, in effect, to Paul—‘Your whole life is to be overmastered by Me;...”
– Oswald Chambers in My Utmost for His Highest
December 2010
1 post
“I didn’t want to come, but I did.
I tried many times to leave, but I...”
– Van Savell’s Burma Shave humor
November 2010
1 post
“Go where you are celebrated, not just tolerated.”
– Anonymous Texas preacher on where to pastor.
August 2010
1 post
“Your neutrality doesn’t protect you, it defines you.”
– Message on Failure by Erwin Raphael McManus, Mosaic
March 2010
1 post
“If an organization is to meet the challenges of a changing world, it must be...”
– Thomas J. Watson
February 2010
2 posts
“If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and...”
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest
“The true usefulness of our preaching will not be known to us until all the fruit...”
– John Piper
December 2009
4 posts
“You can’t go to church. You ARE the church. So BE the church.”
– Anonymous
“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.”
– Henry Ford
“Scars remind us of where we’ve been. They don’t have to dictate...”
– Rossi on CBS’ Criminal Minds
“Let me be thankful first, because I was never robbed before; second, because,...”
– Matthew Henry, 19th Century Scholar, after being robbed
November 2009
1 post
“The opposite of depression isn’t ‘Yippee!’ The opposite of depression is...”
– Dr. Richard D. Grant, clinical psychologist
October 2009
1 post
“Oh, he has a hearing aid…What he needs is a listening aid.”
– Wife about aged husband in comic strip Frank and Earnest
May 2009
1 post
“Atheists are men who do not acknowledge the invisible sources of their life.”
– Richard Wurmbrand in Tortured for Christ
March 2009
2 posts
“What do you like to do when you’re not doing what you have to do?”
– Shaun Boyd in Life Reboot
“Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in...”
– John Wesley
February 2009
4 posts
“I don’t know where I’m going. All I know is that I want you there...”
– Unknown
“You’ll never leave where you are until you decide where you’d rather...”
– Angela Brown Oberer
“Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become...”
– Frank Outlaw
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses...”
– T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
January 2009
4 posts
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Altshuler
“The greatest opposition to what God is doing today comes from those who were on...”
– R.T. Kendall, The Anointing
“We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn’t...”
– Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life
“Your past does not equal your future.”
– Bil Cornelius, lead pastor, Bay Area Fellowship, Corpus Christi
December 2008
8 posts
“A resort is where you go to have it all. A retreat is where you go to get away...”
– Roy H. Williams
“Indian rain dances always work because the Indians don’t stop dancing...”
– Bertwin Lord, Wizard Academy, Oct. 12, 2008
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“To me ‘listening’ is being able to be changed by the other person....”
– Alan Alda Inside the Actor’s Studio
“If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31) I can do all things...”
– The Bible
“If your church or business isn’t growing, by all means: round up the decision...”
– Steven Furtick, Elevation Church, Charlotte, NC
“Cars are easy. It’s people you need a manual for.”
– Greta in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2)
November 2008
3 posts
“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing...”
– Sci Fi writer Robert Heinlein
“There is no success for the Christian other than being faithful to God’s will...”
– Mark Hatfield, former U.S. Senator from Oregon
“I had no choice. God put you in my way.”
– Slave in movie The Four Feathers
October 2008
5 posts
“Mitch said early on that if I would forgive him his past, he’d forgive me...”
– Marie in Dan in Real Life
“Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction,...”
– Rick Warren, author The Purpose Driven Life
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
– Philanthropist John Shedd (1850-1926)
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think...”
– Warren Buffett
“The advantage of the written word is that it allows each hearer to listen at...”
– Roy H. Williams, the Wizard of Ads
September 2008
3 posts
Change in Tony Morgan's Life
Here’s what hasn’t changed…
I’m still humbled that God called me to do what I get to do.
I’m still convinced we live in a world that desperately needs the forgiveness, hope and love that only comes through Jesus.
I’m still figuring out what it is to be a fully-devoted follower of Christ.
I’m still discovering how to help others be all that God designed them to be.
I’m still passionate about...
“I think the role of pastors at this time in history is to be a curator of human...”
– Erwin Raphael McManus
“If you want something you’ve never had, you’ll have to do something...”
– Les Colvin, McComb, MS FBC