Category: Quote of the Month

I’ll do whatever you need.” —Doug Evans To all those working in the mission field, a statement like Doug’s is a dream come true. An unqualified sentence like that is so rarely heard, when he said it, it stopped me in my tracks. For a split second I had to pause as I considered the…Continue reading Quote of the Month: February 2021 →

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not merely eloquent, but with words that emanated from his deep belief in the promises of God, he issued forth…Continue reading Quote of the Month: January 2021 →

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin About 100 years ago, a young monk by the name of Pierre Teilhard was suffering from what today we call post traumatic stress disorder. Like most young men in Europe, he had been swept…Continue reading Quote of the Month: December 2020 →

When you attack poverty you attack racism; when you just attack racism, you’re still stuck with poverty.” -Greg Enas Greg Enas is no stranger to the effort of improving lives. As a PhD in Biostatistics, he was trained in researching questions in medicine and biology to improve pubic health. His working life is all about…Continue reading Quote of the Month: November 2020 →

Remember, amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic” -Sir Richard Needham Sir Richard was a Brit, known for his wit, and even though no one really knows now to what he was referring, his quip is a powerful reminder of the great value of a motivated amateur. After years of working with those in…Continue reading Quote of the Month: October 2020 →

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” -Charles Swindolln Recently, our family took advantage of the long Labor Day weekend to rent a house on the shore of Lake Michigan. We got into a conversation about some of the things I had done, where I had worked, and…Continue reading Quote of the Month: September 2020 →

If you take away religion, you can’t hire enough police…” -A Chinese Marxist to Clay Christiansen Clay Christiansen was a Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Forbes called him “one of the most influential business theorists of the last 50 years.” He is an unassuming man who stands 6’8″ and played college…Continue reading Quote of the Month: August 2020 →

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” -Wayne Dyer Wayne Dyer spent his first ten years in an orphanage after his father walked out leaving his mother penniless. Though he’d been tossed away by his father, a man he’d learn to hate, Dyer survived. He became a…Continue reading Quote of the Month: July 2020 →

A house divided against itself, cannot stand.” -Abraham Lincoln What unrest we have suffered this month, as one appalling murder led to more killings, many injuries, millions of hard-earned dollars in property loss and great damage to our neighborhoods, in an explosion of division. Lincoln knew a lot about division, and while his overwhelming concern…Continue reading Quote of the Month: June 2020 →

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” -Oscar Wilde In 1854, during the Victorian era, Oscar Wilde was born into an educated family in Dublin. Highly intelligent, he spoke English, French and Greek. He was an artist, poet, playwrite, and a famous wit. But Wilde was also gay. When the father of Wilde’s partner had…Continue reading Quote of the Month: May 2020 →