WIST

If you are a Christian, you are a minister. This proposition is absolutely basic to any understanding of the Christian movement. A non-ministering Christian is a contradiction in terms. The Christian faith is not made up of spectators listening to professionals, and it is not for individuals who are seeking, primarily, to save their own souls. It is necessarily made up of persons who are called to serve as representatives of Christ in the world, and to serve means to minister. Ministry is intrinsic to the Christian life. Ministry is not something added or means to an end; it is central and ineradicable.

D. Elton Trueblood (1900-1994) American author, educator, theologian [David Elton Trueblood]
“You Are a Minister”

I like life. It’s something to do.

Ronnie Shakes (contemp.) (fl. decd.) American comedian
(Attributed)

Envy … desires not so much its own happiness as another’s misery.

Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
The Rambler #183 (Dec 1751)

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
“On Taste,” Sketches and Essays (1839)

Little one, I would like to see anyone — prophet, king or God — persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time.

Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) British fabulist
The Sandman, Vol. 3, Dream Country, “A Dream of a Thousand Cats” [Cynical Cat] (#18) (1990)