A collection of 5 quotes to have at the ready for your next message or meeting:
"Our main mission field today, so far as America is concerned, is within the church membership itself." -Elton Trueblood
The self-denial involved in the period of Lent isn’t about just giving up chocolates or beer; it’s about trying to give up a certain set of pictures of God which are burned into our own selfish wants. - Rowan Williams
"The first duty of love is to listen." -Paul Tillich
"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist." -St. Francis of Assisi
"Hope is kind of an orientation of the spirit; it's how you position yourself in places where there's a lot of despair." -Bryan Stevenson
And by the way, if no one has told you lately that you are doing a good job, you're doing a good job and you're only going to get better.