Jonathan Adams

“Patience involves the capacity to bear with annoyances and to endure delays to our timetable.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, The Cross and Salvation

“True listening is actually that period of silence and allowing someone’s words to reach your conscious brain, but it also includes something else that’s a little weird: with your posture, your face, and your sounds, you signal to someone, “I want what you have, I need to know what you know, and I want you to keep telling me the things you’re telling me.”
― James B. Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“Strong, negative emotions (fear, anger, anxiety, hopelessness) tend to narrow our minds—it’s as though our peripheral vision has been cut off because we’re so focused on the peril that’s front and center.”
― Marc Brackett, Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success

“J.C. Ryle faithfully observed that “A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as his peace.”
― Bruce A. Demarest, The Cross and Salvation