These are quotes which stood out to me, possibly for use in a sermon someday. Their presence here does not mean I agree with them, it merely shows that I might want to reference them later. The default view is five random selections. Use the tag list on the right to view all quotes relevant to that theme.
Perhaps I would have been more success as a long-distance runner if I had gone into training, and given up smoking and drinking, and kept regular hours.
id: 316 | source: Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain 195 | tags: Discipline, Success
This speaks a lot about the quality of Japanese products and their quality standards. They're still laughing about this at IBM. Apparently the computer giant decided to have some parts manufactured in Japan as a trial project. In the specifications, they set out that they will accept three defective parts per 10,000. When the delivery came in there was an accompanying letter. "We, Japanese people, had a hard time understanding North American business practices. But the three defective parts per 10,000 have been separately manufactured and have been included in the consignment. Hope this pleases you."
id: 779 | source: Anonymous | tags: Excellence
A well-dressed European woman was on safari in Africa. The group stopped
briefly at a hospital for lepers. The hear was intense, the flies buzzing.
She noticed a nurse bending down in the dirt, tending to the pus-filled
sores of a leper.
With disdain the woman remarked, "Why, I wouldn't do that for all the money
in the world!"
The nurse quietly replied, "Neither would I."
id: 989 | source: Anonymous | tags: Money, Motivation, Service
There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
id: 2085 | source: Kingman Brewster | tags: Creativity, Tolerance
Regarding tentmaking: Take for example the way in which Sozome speaks of Zeno, who was the bishop of Majuma (that is Gaza) at the end of the fourth century. Sozomen says that Zeno, ‘by pursuing his trade of weaving linen, continued to earn the means of supplying his own want and of providing for others. He never deviated from this conduct till the close of his life, although he exceeded all other priests of that province in age and although he presided over the people and property of the largest church.’
By: Paul Stevens
Source: Liberating the Laity, InterVarsity Press, 1985, quoting Roland Allen