Shingobee Quotes & Sayings

It is one thing to have a ministry that is gospel believing and even gospel proclaiming but quite another to have one that is gospel centered. — Timothy Keller

Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly. — John Ortberg

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there. — Sloane Crosley

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious. — Marianne Moore

Because racism was alive and real as shit. It was everywhere and all mixed up in everything, and the only people who said it wasn't, and the only people who said, "Don't talk about it" were white. Well, stop lying. That's what I wanted to tell those people. Stop lying. Stop denying. That's why I was marching. Nothing was going to change unless we did something about it. We! White people! — Jason Reynolds

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society. — Marquis De Lafayette

On Linden, when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was the flow
Of Iser, rolling rapidly. — Thomas Campbell

Close counts in handguns as well, in my book," Remy argued.
"Your book is written in purple crayon. No one cares. — Abigail Roux

I think our last kiss was meant to be quick and chaste, but after the first touch of his lips fire leaped up and roared through my belly. My fingers yanked him close, digging into his back, and his arms crushed me to him as if wanting to meld us together. I knotted my fingers in his hair and bit down on his bottom lip, making him groan. His lips parted, and my tongue swept in to dance with his. There was nothing sweet or gentle in our last kiss; it was filled with sorrow and desperation, of the bitter knowledge that we could've had something perfect, but it just wasn't meant to be. — Julie Kagawa

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. — Theodore White

The goal is to identify what your counterparts actually need (monetarily, emotionally, or otherwise) and get them feeling safe enough to talk and talk and talk some more about what they want. The latter will help you discover the former. Wants are easy to talk about, representing the aspiration of getting our way, and sustaining any illusion of control we have as we begin to negotiate; needs imply survival, the very minimum required to make us act, and so make us vulnerable. But neither wants nor needs are where we start; it begins with listening, making it about the other people, validating their emotions, and creating enough trust and safety for a real conversation to begin. We — Chris Voss

Your team will get stronger when you begin to build yourself. Teams are made up of individuals who work together ... and get their own job done. What are you doing to be sure that your job is being done perfectly? — Jeffrey Gitomer

Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction. — Nathan Myhrvold