Brad Green

“Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.”
― Eric Metaxas, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

“If you find physical pleasure in earthly experiences, use the occasion to praise God for these gifts. Turn your love not on the pleasures but toward their Maker.3 Otherwise, the things that please you will cause you to displease. Love those souls that please you, but love them in God.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version

“Students will sometimes decide that they don’t like where they are sitting, and I probably won’t notice if they re-seat themselves over by their friend.  And they are right.  I’m very busy in class.  So if I don’t have a serious consequence, it’s worth it for them to take that gamble, and pretty soon it becomes rampant.  Then I start nagging, and I hate nagging.  So on the first time, I warn them that what they are doing is actually in the category of defiance which should earn them a referral, or at least a detention.”
― Kristen Coad, Easy Classroom Management For Difficult Schools: A Simple System for Middle and High School Classrooms

“Millions call themselves by His Name, it is true, and pay some token respect to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time. Those other things will be exalted above. However the man may protest, the proof is in the choices he makes day after day throughout his life.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God