Thought One: 

" Be like the sower in Van Gogh's painting--don't position yourself in the center--rather, position yourself in a posture of openness--of a willingness to "do the work He has given you to do with gladness and singleness of heart and mind."  " - Dr. Leslie Thyberg

Thought Two:

"We like stories in which domination arrives with trumpets. We are less fond of stories in which it arrives as convenience. Yet convenience is where modern power likes to hide. Bureaucracy has always known this. So has advertising. So, for that matter, has political propaganda. The clever move is rarely to forbid judgment. The clever move is to make judgment feel inefficient, overwrought, somehow a little old-fashioned. Why wrestle with uncertainty when a polished answer is available in two seconds? " -Dr. Colin WP Lewis