Mitch Green

“the people-pleaser struggles to do it with the right motive. Pleasing and glorifying God by serving others takes a backseat to serving others to promote and glorify self.”
― Lou Priolo, Pleasing People: How not to be an "approval junkie"

“What can we do in this life that we cannot do in eternity? Though the question is not fully answerable because we do not know enough about eternity, we do know that once we leave the earth, we cannot continue to influence other people in the same way we do now.”
― Bruce B. Miller, Your Life in Rhythm: Less stress, more Peace Less frustration, more Fulfillment Less discouragement, more Hope

“In the post-Christian vision, progress replaces God’s presence as the engine of history.”
― Mark Sayers, Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture

“The difference is not between the use of reason and its abandonment; it is the difference between two ways of understanding the world, one in which the self is sovereign and the other in which I understand myself only in a relation of mutuality with other selves.”
― Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society