#astor

My father used to tease me at the table by implying that “cold Claire” had brought in the draft. I had three older sisters, all beautiful, and I was always less affected than them, slow to smile. I remember finding it extremely hard to open presents as a child because the requisite theatricality was too exhausting. My sisters forever humiliated me over a moment in fifth grade when I’d opened a present from my grandmother and declared, straight-faced, “I already have this. ↗

— Marina Keegan

#beauty

Be your self at your personal best ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #john-paul-warren #john-warren #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren

The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church-leadership #pastor-john-paul #pastor-john-paul-warren #pastors-conferences #school-of-ministry

Men of God are not just born, they are formed ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #john-paul-warren #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #voice-of-the-nations

I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for! ↗

— John Paul Warren

#faith #john-paul #john-paul-warren #leadership-quotes #mens-qoutes

Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

Aldrich bears witness to the tail-end of the disintegration of that most storied of American dynasties, the Astors. Growing up at Rokeby, the crumbling, 43-room family mansion on the Hudson River, she had ample opportunity to observe and participate in the eccentricities of her once mighty clan. Interweaving recollections from her dysfunctional childhood and tales of glories past, she accurately captures and communicates the madness and malaise that have infected many members of the last few generations of Astors. ↗

— Margaret Flanagan

#memoir #communication

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context. ↗

— Russell Moore

#family #pastors #family