Shaun

“This lesson is, I suppose, a major reason I wrote this book: because along the way I’ve picked up the wisdom that bad things happen, and yet the sun still comes up the next day, and it’s up to you to carry on living your life and keeping your setbacks in perspective. You also have to understand that on some level, these horrible and sad things happen to everyone; the mark of a man is not just how he survives it all but also what wisdom he’s gained from the experience.”
― Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

“Today, you and I are 99 percent wrong about everyone we hold opinions about. That figure may be low, but I know I’m close. In our growing sense of Compassion, such as we would like leveled at ourselves, let us respect the human beings around us enough to see what lies beneath that which our stubborn, blind minds and made-up thoughts insist they already have pegged. See. Then re-see. Then re-re-see. Again and again and again, until you know their real name and feel their story like you hope they’ll feel yours. Then we will know Love and Compassion and the reason so many stories in the Bible are of Jesus healing eyes.”
― Steve Daugherty, Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth

“It’s helpful to think most of my withheld forgiveness and grace toward others can legitimately be catalogued as idolatry. What else is it when I expect you to cure me of my anxiety and work miracles so that I might have my happiness back? Is there anything as unloving, or as crazy, as holding you to a standard I know you can’t reach and then blaming you for my sense of disappointment afterward?”
― Steve Daugherty, Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth

“Scripture says there’s great strength in human weakness. Our frailty and inabilities highlight God’s perfect strength. Jesus himself is the ultimate example of finding strength in weakness. He was fully God and fully human, yet he came down to serve others and sacrifice himself for us. What appeared to be a moment of weakness for him was actually the strongest moment in history. He gave his life for us—not because he had to, but because he chose to, because he loves us. When we are at our most vulnerable, that’s when we tend to pray and ask God for help. Why don’t we pray like that when things are going well? It’s because we think we can do it on our own and through our own strength. In reality, however, we are strongest when we are weak, because that’s when we turn to God and put our trust in him. It seems counterintuitive, but I knew that my greatest strength would come not when I thought I had it all together but when I knew how much I needed God—whether things were going well or not. Grasping these foundational biblical concepts and applying them revolutionized my life—and my career.”
― Nick Foles, Believe It: My Journey of Success, Failure, and Overcoming the Odds