“ The only enduring influence we have to offer others is the influence God has in our own lives. Mel Lawrenz
“ Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control. Mel Lawrenz
“ Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol. Mel Lawrenz
“ No one really wants to follow you per se. They really don’t. They want to know that, by following you, they are really following a higher principle, a transcendent truth. In spiritual followership, people want to know whether they are being led and influenced by God. Mel Lawrenz
“ No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best. Franz Schubert Composer
“ The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Writer
“ Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated. Alexander Maclaren
“ I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. Alice Walker Author
“ And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the things and the people and the places you allowed yourself to care about--but guess what, Jennika--that's no way to live. As much as it hurts to lose something you love, there's much greater joy in getting to experience it for as long as it lasts. Alyson Noel Author