#nit

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#giving #grace #investment-kingdom #need #stewardship

And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings have ever come to crystallizing time and free will into a compact physical form. Cash. Cash is a time crystal. Cash allows you to multiply your will, and it allows you to speed up time. Cash is what defines us as a species. Nothing else in the universe has money. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#money #time #money

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change. ↗

— David Gemmell

#humanity #change

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#people #prejudice #pride #relationships #vanity

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#human #into #man #most #obstacles

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#initiative #motivation #motivational

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#motivational #opportunity #risk-taking #success #motivational

...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead. ↗

— William H. Gass

#literary-criticism #the-recognitions #twentieth-century #art

[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is always close to zero, long-term thinking is an alien concept, and even the most massive and ambitious undertakings are motivated entirely by short-term rewards. A radical reshaping of the entire economy, for two election cycles’ worth of campaign cash – that was what this bill meant. It sounds absurdly reductive to say so, but there’s no other explanation that makes any sense. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#health-care #obamacare #united-states #motivational

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#box #breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal