In God, happiness and purposeful work are a package deal. - Jennifer Dukes Lee

Scholars seem to agree that Jesus drove a Honda, but he didn’t talk about it publicly. “For I did not speak of my own Accord” (John 12:49, NIV). So there you have it: a Honda. I don’t know exactly who first made this startling discovery, but I learned about it on the Internet, so it must be true.

Ambition is your own yoke, not His! And the lust of wealth, the desire for power, the craving for human love — all that is a yoke of your own making — and if you will wear it, it will gall you. There is more joy in being unknown than in being known and there is less care in having no wealth than in having much of it. We often go the wrong way to work in seeking true restfulness and happiness.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. BRENNAN MANNING