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    Antony Jay
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    The only real training for leadership is leadership.

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    Jesse Owens
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    A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

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    Muhammad Ali
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    I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

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    Let No Man’s Ghost Come Back to Say My Training Let Me Down.

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    Frank Herbert
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    “The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at...

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    Alan Fadling
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    We’re all tempted to come to Jesus for what we want from him, rather than coming to him for mentoring, training and teaching about what he wants our lives to look like.

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    Epictetus
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    Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are...

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    James Bryan Smith
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    The passion of my life has been to find the answer to this question: How do we become like Christ? I have come to believe that the problem is not that we do not want to change, nor is the problem that...

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    Max Lucado
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    Hebrews 12:8
    Don’t see your struggle as an interruption to life but as preparation for life. No one said the road would be easy or painless. But God will use your mess for something good. “This trouble you’re in i...

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    John Chrysostom
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    Matthew 14:22-23, Mark 4:35-41, James 1:2-4, Acts 27:13-26, Jonah 1:4-16
    The disciples are tossed on the waves again. They are in a storm, fully as bad as the previous one. Gently and by degrees he excites and urges the disciples on toward greater responsiveness, even to t...

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    Gene D. Cohen
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    A great deal of scientific work has also confirmed the “use it or lose it” adage: the mind grows stronger from use and from being challenged in the same way that muscles grow stronger from exercise.

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    Mark Galli
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    The liturgy is the place where we wait for Jesus to show up. We don't have to do much. The liturgy is not an act of will. It is not a series of activities designed to attain a spiritual mental sta...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    As long as you notice, and have to count, the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don’t notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conscio...

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    Will Durant
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    We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.”.

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    Plato
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    Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

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    Thomas S. Monson
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    Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

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    Wesley Tracy
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    Some people have the notion that following your spiritual gifts is spending the days and years of your life doing only those things which come naturally, easily, with no effort, discipline, or practic...

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    Thomas Merton
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    Souls are like athletes that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers.

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    Tod E. Bolsinger
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    Christian Leaders: You were trained for a world that is disappearing.

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    John C. Maxwell
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    A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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    Will Durant
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    Proverbs 4:23, Daniel 6:3-4 , Exodus 35:30-35, Philippians 4:8, Colossians 3:23-24 , Psalm 1:1-3
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather have these because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by d...

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    Jason Lee
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    In antiquity, the Greek word μυστήριον could mean “something secret” or “hidden,” or a “secret rite” of initiation.Mystery terminology was operative in philosophy, asin the works of Plato. Only those ...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Because we are sinful by nature, we have developed sinful patterns, which we call habits. Discipline is required to break any habit. If a boy has developed the wrong style of swinging a baseball bat, ...

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    Matthew Boulton
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    For Calvin, the church is a gymnasium, a training ground, a school, and community of preparation and practice enrolled (we hope and pray) in God’s sanctifying, transformative paideia.

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    John Ortberg
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    There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simpl...

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    Lauren F. Winner
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    Proverbs 3:5-6, Philippians 4:6-7, 2 Corinthians 12:9, James 1:5-6, Hebrews 11:1, Ephesians 4:11-13, 1 Corinthians 12:4-6
    Maybe God has given some people belief like a pier, to stand on (and God has given those people’s steadiness to the church, to me, as a reminder, as an aid), and maybe God has given others something e...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Worship is where people are conformed to Christ, join in his work, are accepted back into fellowship, and dance to the beat of his drum. Worship anticipates heaven, where all these things are glorious...

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    Liturgy Training Publications
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    When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes th...
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