Mark Buchanan Quotations

He's a good kid and a good player. From what I understand, it was finally determined that Dusty didn't attend the party and was at the place for such a short period of time, that it didn't warrant a 20-day suspension.

I think we're making really good strides. This is gonna be a test, the test, to see if we can play at the level I think we're 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.

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

Trevor played JV the first couple of weeks because he didn't understand the offense very well,

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 didn't help things by dropping about 10 passes.

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.

We're athletic and we have good speed. When you are playing a power team like Ony, you have to have more.

We basically played much improved over the last two weeks. The kids' understanding of the new offense is starting to kick in.

There's a lot of good trial stuff coming up.

If we call them and they're unable to communicate, we'll make a stack of those people and have someone contact them who can speak Spanish. We want to make sure everyone's registered and aware of what's going on.

In some ways, this is a practice run to see how it all works.

He's fast, there's no doubt about that. We'll use him.

I didn't think we'd 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 we've got good athletes on the sidelines, too. Our depth is one of our strong points.

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

Courage encourages courage.

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.

Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

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.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.