“God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
“After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.” ~ C. S. Lewis
“It’s not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.” ~ N. T. Wright
“We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.” ~ Os Guinness
“How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship” ~ Timothy Keller
“If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.” ~ Richard Rohr
“Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.” ~ Steven Pressfield
It’s been said we are the summation of our inner circle, the few people we let in, you know. This is not simply those we surround ourselves with, but those whose books we devour, podcasts we inhale, and social media we swipe. Surround yourself with light, my friends. Merry Christmas. Be good. Do good. God bless you.
Live hard. Love harder…
BUILT TO LEAD 