Bryan Eckelmann

“Without a doubt, discovering destiny occurs at just the right time. It can't be forced, and we can't rush it. We typically cannot even imagine it. God takes the initiative to lift us up when he chooses.”
― Bill Thrall, The Ascent of a Leader: How Ordinary Relationships Develop Extraordinary Character and InfluenceA Leadership Network Publication

“The power that the world acknowledges comes out of the mouth of a gun; the power that the person of faith respects comes from the mouth of Christ.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination

“God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you ”
― William Arthur Ward

“The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.”
― Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places