Quotable quotes encountered during the month of June

6-1-11 

There are only two ways to live your life. 

 One is as though nothing is a miracle. 

 The other is as though everything is a miracle. 

- Einstein 

6-5-11 

Jesus taught us that we must be ever willing to die for our faith, but never willing to kill for our faith. 

- Tim Kuepfer 

 6-8-11 

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was" 

 - Abe Lincoln "

Leadership is overpowering. Influence is empowering." 

 - Tim Elmore 

6-10-11 

We try not to over-schedule our lives with stuff that pulls us in different directions — which means church activities... aren’t always a priority... It’s not because we dislike our church. It’s because we believe the Kingdom of God is bigger than our church. 

- Jason Boyett 

6-12-11 

Peace, unsurprisingly, is not welcome by those whose politics depend on division and hatred. 

- Yameen Rasheed, RE: Palestinian human rights, but could apply in many contexts 

6-23-11 

"When you realized that you will not always fit in, that is when you can really be yourself" 

- Josiah Create Hope Potter

 

6-29-11 

There is a time to lay quietly and a time to thrash about. There’s a time to honor the church and there’s a time to warn the church. 

- Scot McKnight 

Organized religiosity has failed. Institutional church is dead as an effective means for representing God to the emerging scene. 

- Rubel Shelly, I knew Jesus before he was a Christian & I liked him better then