Lee Pittard

“Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.
“What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Our task in worship is to prepare ourselves spiritually to hear the Spirit speak, sometimes despite the music and preaching.”
― Adam Hamilton, The Call: The Life and Message of the Apostle Paul

“The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will deeply root inside us and give us inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulas.”
― Billy Graham

“So what’s the problem with prosperity theology? The problem is when it equates financial capital with spiritual capital, assuming that our financial abundance is an accurate way of measuring our spiritual abundance. It’s easy to fall into this trap, because financial capital is the most measurable and concrete kind of capital (because people have been measuring it longer than the others). Prosperity theologians tend to treat financial capital as the same thing as spiritual capital, and so they serve Money as God. This ultimately causes their theology as a whole to be unbalanced and unhelpful.”
― Mike Breen, Oikonomics