Todd Stanfield

“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

“Whether you realize it or not, how you slept last night probably has a bigger impact on your life than what you decide to eat, how much money you make, or where you live. All of those things that add up to what you consider you—your creativity, emotions, health, and ability to quickly learn a new skill or devise a solution to a problem—can be seen as little more than by-products of what happens inside your brain while your head is on a pillow each night. It is part of a world that all of us enter and yet barely understand … Sleep isn’t a break from our lives. It’s the missing third of the puzzle of what it means to be living.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“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

“Lincoln viewed the nation’s trauma as a time to reflect on and confess sins, rather than to rouse his side to a haughty self-righteousness. As he said, “ I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”
― Philip Yancey, Prayer