Mediocrity
"To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence." (Jim Collins, Good to Great)
Mind
"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." (Sally Kempton)
"A man becomes what he thinks of most of the time." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Money
“If you give a tithe, you get rid of ten percent of the root of all evil. You should be giving ninety percent because God can handle money better than we can.” (Rich Mullins)
Morning
"The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals...And the first job every morning consists simply in shoving them all back, listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day, standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind." (C.S. Lewis)
Music
"Some very stereotyped brethren judge it to be a crime for an evangelist to sing the gospel; and as to that American organ, -dreadful! One of these days another set of conservative souls will hardly endure a service without such things, for the horror of one age is the idol of the next." (C.H. Spurgeon, 1875)