Morning Briefings

The kingdom of God is within you. Could anything be plainer than that?

– Mary Pickford
Why Not Try God?

Being made in the image of God invests us with a portable spirituality center. No matter where we go, so long as we carry this core identity with us, we remain spiritually impervious to the ups and downs of external circumstances.

– Naomi H. Rosenblatt and Joshua Horwitz
Wrestling with Angels

There’s global competition, technology changes, more regulations than ever before. It’s just complicated. Things are harder today.

– Patrick Lencioni
The Five Temptations of a CEO

In a world that applauds accomplishments and celebrity, it is easy to assume that God values us more highly when our ambitions and goals have been fulfilled. Thus, when we fail or are unsuccessful, we not only disappoint ourselves, but we may fear we have disappointed God.

– Karen Westerfield Tucker from
Strength for Service to God and Country

Never let someone else determine God’s will for your life. No one else can understand God’s unique call on your life as clearly as you can.

– Ray Pritchard
Leadership Lessons of Jesus: A Timeless Model for Today’s Leaders

Sooner or later, even the upbeat soul gets beat up by life. We need a higher power, a deeper strength, a wider mercy, and a mightier word.

– Robert J. Morgan
The Promise: How God Works All Things Together for Good

On a particularly difficult day a nurse prayed: ‘O God, where are you? Why don’t you send help?’ ‘I did,’ God replied, ‘I sent you. And as long as it takes, I will be with you whenever and wherever you honor human life.’

– Fr. James Krings
Living Faith

People who don’t really believe in the future do not shape the future. Men and women of vitality have always been prepared to bet their futures, even their lives, on ventures of unknown outcome. If they had all looked before they leaped, we would still be crouched in caves sketching animal pictures on the wall.

– John Gardner
from a 1993 speech