“Do you know who you are? Do you know who you were designed to be? Do you know the Father’s intent for your life? You are meant to hear in your spirit the same thing Jesus heard when he came out of the waters of baptism at the beginning of his ministry: ‘You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased’… J. I. Packer puts it simply. ‘What is a Christian? The question can be answered in many ways, but the richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God for his Father’…Our highest privilege and deepest need is to experience the holy God as our loving Father, to approach him with out fear and to be assured of his fatherly care and concern.”

– Greg Ogden

Discipleship Essentials

“In my travels, I find that most people today are restless and hungry to get “into the game” and experience the deeper meaning of their lives. They just don’t know where to start.”

– Ken Blanchard, Co-Author the One Minute Manager

“Most of us spend more time reacting to immediate crises and responding to the expectations of others than we do making considered choices guided by a clear sense of what matters most.”

– Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz The Power of Full Engagement

“Leave your impoverished confusion and live! Walk up the street to a life with meaning.”

– Proverbs 9:6 The Message

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute … that gives meaning to our lives.”

— Anthony Robbins

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; 
you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

— James Allen

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

–Sir Winston Churchill

“Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever to have truly lived.”

– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

– Thomas Carlyle

“You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.”

— Galileo Galilei

“Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”

– Tim Kizziar

“Every man dies, not every man really lives.”

– William Wallace