James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) reminded fellow missionaries that there three ways to do God’s work: “One is to make the best plans we can, and carry them out to best of our ability. . .or, having carefully laid our plans and determined to carry them through, we may ask God to help us, and to prosper us in connection with them. Yet another way of working is to begin with God, to ask His plans, and to offer ourselves to Him to carry out His purposes.”

“Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and to bring Him nearer to our own image”–A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God, 63.

“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself”–Blaise Pascal.

“Success is not forever, and failure isn’t final”–Don Shula.

“Suffering is intolerable only when it’s unshared”–Brian Harbour.

“In truth, the only diference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure”–Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, 54.

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