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    Benjamin Franklin
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    If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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    Viktor E. Frankl
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    Genesis 39:9, Exodus 20:3, Deuteronomy 6:20-21, Matthew 4:4, Hebrews 11:24-26 , Psalm 78:4
    Man is pushed by drives. But he is pulled by values.

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    Daniel H. Pink
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    Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

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    Alan Fadling
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    The drive to possess is an engine for hurry.

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    John O'Donohue
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    The basic human drive is the desire for the Good.

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    Walter Brueggemann
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    Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.

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    Eleanor Doan
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    1 John 4:7-8, Luke 19:1-10, Matthew 8:5-13, Proverbs 25:21-22, Romans 12:20-21, Luke 6:27-28, Matthew 5:43-44
    Love your enemy-it will drive him nuts.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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    Nicholas G. Carr
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    Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link—the more crumbs, the better. The last thing thes...

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    Richard Plass
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    Maleness and femaleness is the fundamental way we carry our relational design. Interestingly, the English word sexuality comes from the Latin word sexus, which means “being divided, cut off, separated...

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    Thomas Fuller
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    When our Savior drove the sheep and oxen out of the temple, He did not drive them into His own pasture; nor sweep the coin into His own pockets, when He overturned the table of the money-changers.

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    Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone
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    Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance.

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    Dallas Willard and Gary Black Jr.
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    The task of Christian spokespersons, leaders, and professionals is to exemplify and teach foundational traits of the good life Jesus manifests. But this must also include the more specific traits requ...

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    J. C. Ryle
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    Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

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    Rudolf Borchardt
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    God’s garden, made “in the beginning,” does not lie behind us, but ahead of us, in hope, and, in the meantime, all around us as our place of work. History without gardens would be a wasteland. What th...

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    Darrell W. Johnson
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    First, the quality Jesus blesses in the third Beatitude has nothing to do with all the negative images triggered by the English word “meek.” Although it is a challenge to pin down the exact meaning of...

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    Paul Roberts
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    Raw materials such as No. 2 yellow corn or BSCB (boneless, skinless chicken breasts) are now handled like any other commodity : produced wherever costs are lowest, shipped to wherever demand is highes...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increa...

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    Wallace Stegner
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    Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edg...

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    Martin Luther
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    God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; He hates them when they drive us to despair.

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    N. T. Wright
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    The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any clothing we did not make ourselves, or being unwilling to drive ...

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    D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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    1 Corinthians 6:20
    Consider, finally, what it meant to Him to do this for us. “I go,” He says. Where is He going? He is going to the Garden of Gethsemane to sweat drops of blood. Where is He going? He is going to be arr...

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    Ronald Rohlheiser
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    So much of our unhappiness comes from comparing our lives, our friendships, our loves, our commitments, our duties, our bodies and our sexuality to some idealized and non-Christian vision of things wh...

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    Kevin G. Ford
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    If someone is looking for a church, she will drive by the facility and decide within three seconds if it might be a fit. If she actually shows up, she determines whether to return in another three sec...

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    Richard J. Foster
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    The fruit of the Spirit is not push, drive, climb, grasp and trample. Life is more than a climb to the top of the heap.

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    Abraham J. Heschel
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    Isaiah 55:6, Psalm 63:1, Romans 12:11-12, Psalm 42:1-2, Hebrews 11:6
    Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind—these are all a dr...

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    Timothy Keller
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    Isaiah 44:20, Luke 16:13, Jeremiah 2:13, 1 John 5:21, Matthew 6:21
    Sin isn’t only doing bad things, it is more fundamentally making good things into ultimate things. Sin is building your life and meaning on anything, even a very good thing, more than on God. Whatever...

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    John Ortberg
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    Galatians 5:22-23, John 13:1-17, John 10:25-37, John 13:34-35, 1 John 4:7-8, Matthew 22:37-39
    Though I tweet like Justin Bieber and have more Facebook friends than the pope; though I get a BA from Cal and an MBA from Stanford; though I invented Snapchat and Uber; though I have great hair and w...

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    Timothy Keller
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    What many people call “psychological problems” are simple issues of idolatry. Perfectionism, workaholism, chronic indecisiveness, the need to control the lives of others—all of these stem from making ...

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    Abraham Lincoln
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    I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
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