Todd Stanfield

“We should not regard what a man is and what he deserves: but we should go higher – that it is God who has placed us in the world for such a purpose that we be united and joined together. He has impressed his image in us and has given us a common nature, which should incite us to providing one for the other. The man who wishes to exempt himself from providing for his neighbors should face himself and declare that he no longer wishes to be a man, for as long as we are human creatures we must contemplate as in a mirror our face in those who are poor, despised, exhausted, who groan under their burdens . .”
― John Calvin

“I had never had an adequate notion of what Christians meant by God. I had simply taken it for granted that the God in Whom religious people believed, and to Whom they attributed the creation and government of all things, was a noisy and dramatic and passionate character, a vague, jealous, hidden being, the objectification of all their own desires and strivings and subjective ideals.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“Whatever you do, please don’t think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“God didn’t make us to be warriors so that we’d be perfect; he made us to be warriors so that we’d fight our fears, learn from our mistakes, and live to fight another day.”
― Craig Groeschel, Fight: Winning the Battles That Matter Most