{"id":800,"date":"2015-05-01T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2015-05-01T14:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T21:52:55","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/01\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some quotes from leaders attending Orange Conference last week, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briandoddonleadership.com\/\">Brian Dodd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The antidote to cynicism is curiosity. The curious are never cynical. The cynical are never curious. The cynical have it all figured out.\u2014Carey Nieuwhof<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>There are no balanced old people. You\u2019re really angry or you\u2019re really happy.\u2014Carey Nieuwhof<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jesus prepared for 30 years and taught for three. We prepared for three and try to preach for 30.\u2014Carey Nieuwhof<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>If you write \u201cFamily\u201d on your calendar you can tell people you have a commitment on that day.\u2014Carey Nieuwhof<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.\u2014Andy Stanley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Business did not make systems up. God is a God of order.\u2014Jenni Catron<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>We need to introduce systems at our staff\u2019s point of need.\u2014Jenni Catron<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Encourage. Encourage. I can see the things which need to be fixed but not the things which are working well. We should be encouraging five times to every one criticism.\u2014Jenni Catron<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>People out of their faith and obedience to God have given their resources and because of this you have a paycheck.\u2014Jenni Catron<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve even found myself evaluating weddings.\u2014Jeff Henderson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>What is this generation of students worth? It\u2019s worth everything.\u2014Andy Stanley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.\u2014Andy Stanley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some quotes from leaders attending Orange Conference last week, via Brian Dodd: The antidote to cynicism is curiosity. The curious are never cynical. The cynical are never curious. The cynical have it all figured out.\u2014Carey Nieuwhof There are no balanced old people. You\u2019re really angry or you\u2019re really happy.\u2014Carey Nieuwhof Jesus prepared for 30 years &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/01\/quotes\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[102,187,641,62],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-christianity","tag-leadership","tag-quotes","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}