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You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me—most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.
- John Maxwell
No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life - that the world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence. Eisenhower's parents assumed, and taught their children, that if their children weren't alive, their family couldn't function.
- Donald Miller
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What's Wrong with the World)
- John Eldredge
Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.
- John Stott
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary & virtuous function.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
- Aristotle
Organizations typically structure themselves around function or business unit or geography—but successful growth companies optimize around the job.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
They try to reveal revelation to themselves. For the grace of the Holy Spirit never destroys the capabilities of nature. Just the opposite: it makes nature, which has been weakened by unnatural habit, mature and strong enough once again to function in a natural way and leads it upward toward insight into the divine.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Your system is perfectly designed to yield the result you are getting.
- Dallas Willard
The God-intended function of the will is to reach out to God in trust. By standing in the correct relation to God through our will we can receive grace that will properly reorder the soul along with the other five components of the self.
- Dallas Willard