I Wish I’d Said That • 4

I had accumulated more quotes than I realized, so even though it’s only been two weeks, here’s another I Wish I’d Said That.

• Often we judge ourselves by our intentions and everyone else by their actions. - John Bevere in The Bait of Satan

• We can do anything, but we can't do everything. - John Maxwell in The Success Journey

• You've never locked eyes with anyone who doesn't matter to the Father. - Bill Hybels as quoted by Mark Mittelberg in Building a Contagious Church

• I've got vision and the rest of the world wears bi-focals. - Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

• It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are - even if we tell it only to ourselves - because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. - Frederick Buechner in Telling Secrets

• Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford as quoted by John Maxwell in The Success Journey

• We do not honor our founders by blindly perpetuating in a changing world what they once did . . . we honor them by doing for our time and culture what they did for theirs. - George Hunter in Church for the Unchurched as quoted by Mark Mittelberg in Building a Contagious Church

• Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams as quoted by Dinesh D'Souza in What's So Great About Christianity?

I Wish I'd Said That • 3

I realized I haven't shared an I Wish I'd Said That post since January, so here you go!

• If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti as quoted by David Foster

• God is just as concerned about how we treat the people we lead as what we get accomplished. Remember, they may be your leaders, but they are His kids. - Jim Wideman

• If Jesus said the thief comes to steal and kill and destroy, why don't we think the thief ever actually comes to steal and kill and destroy? - John Eldredge in Waking the Dead

• If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems, and that's a big mistake. - Frank Wilczek (Nobel Prize Winner in Physics) as quoted by Tony Morgan

• The path of least resistance makes for crooked rivers and crooked men. - Unknown

• But in our defense, we're very lazy people who tire easily. - Mark Addy as Bill Miller on CBS's Still Standing

• Without wood a fire will go out, and without gossip, quarreling will stop. - Proverbs 26:20 - NCV

• When you know God would never do anything to harm or destroy you, and whatever He does or does not do in your lifeis in your best interest, then you will give yourself freely to Him. - John Bevere in The Bait of Satan

I Wish I'd Said That • 2

See I Wish I'd Said That • 1.

• History is a nightmare. There are more scandals, more acts of corruption, than are dreamed of in philosophy. It would be blasphemous to believe that what we witness is the end of God's creation [as good as God's creation gets]. – Abraham Heschel in The Prophets

• You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. – James 1:3-4 (The Message)



• When addressed by a Marine Lieutenant filled with anxiety because his platoon had never been on a submarine before: Rest easy; I have. – Rock Hudson as Commander James Ferraday in the film Ice Station Zebra (1968)



• Everything God wants to do through [you] this year begins with what he wants to do in you. Remember, God is more interested in you than in what you do. – David Foster



• I love it when I read Scripture. I love it even more when Scripture reads me. – Perry Noble as quoted by Tony Morgan



• [Faith] is a sure and steadfast knowledge of the love of God toward us, according as He declares in His gospel that He is our Father and Savior (through the mediation of Jesus Christ). – John Calvin in The Geneva Catechism



• The person who cares nothing about the approval or disapproval of people enjoys great peace of mind. – Thomas à Kempis in The Imitation of Christ