Quotes by Mark Buchanan

“Paige has a great deal of raw talent. But thats not enough. Paige also has a very good work ethic and when you put those together, you get success.”

“We played with them for about a quarter and a half, but they were physically bigger and stronger than us. They wore us down and we didnt help things by dropping about 10 passes.”

“I think were making really good strides. This is gonna be a test, the test, to see if we can play at the level I think were capable of playing. Our goal going into the season was to try to regain the league championship. If we want to do that, this is a must-win.”

“Were athletic and we have good speed. When you are playing a power team like Ony, you have to have more.”

“Those are four really key guys who need to set the tone. They really have to do the job in order for us to reach a high level.”

“Ive been telling people that weve improved.”

“I didnt think wed shut them out, but I thought we could contain them if we played physical inside -- and we did. Coach (Toby) Tabor had the defense ready to go. We have a lot of good athletes out there, and weve got good athletes on the sidelines, too. Our depth is one of our strong points.”

“Trevor played JV the first couple of weeks because he didnt understand the offense very well,”

“Hes fast, theres no doubt about that. Well use him.”

“If we call them and theyre unable to communicate, well make a stack of those people and have someone contact them who can speak Spanish. We want to make sure everyones registered and aware of whats going on.”

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Author wonders whether Gods proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.

One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.

But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.

Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.

Love can’t cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.

Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.

There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and our thoughts. The first thing the Prophet Isaiah said when he saw the living and exalted God was, “Woe is me, I am ruined. For I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips” (Isaiah 6:5). Isaiah was one of the most godly men who ever walked the earth. But seeing God, he sees also, abrupt and stark and grief-making, his own duplicity. Then God does what only God can do: he sears his lips clean (Isaiah 6:6-7). And herein lies our hope: truly seeing God, we truly see ourselves, in all our woe-begotten duplicity; but crying out to God, we are truly and greatly helped.

Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.