These are the quotes I noted while reading The Best Question Ever: A Revolutionary Approach to Decision Making by Andy Stanley:
- The Best Question Ever is… “What is the wise thing to do?”
- In light of your past experience, what is the wise thing to do?
- In light of your current circumstances, what is the wise thing to do?
- In light of my future hopes and dreams, what is the wise thing to do?
- We might be closer to living our dreams if we had guarded them more closely.
- “Limits he cannot achieve.” (Job) – you can overspend, overeat, and overachieve, but you can’t “overlive.”
- In light of my past experiences, my current responsibilities, and my future hopes and dreams, what is the wisest way to invest my time?
- The random pursuits that interrupt our routines don’t add up to anything. Well, actually, they add up to a lot of wasted time.
- If we will transfer our concern to what’s important to Him, He will take care of what’s important to us.
- Every poor moral decision is prefaced by a series of unwise choices.
- Intentions are a pretty useless defense against temptations and regret.
- Often the wise choice is obscured by the emotion of the moment.
- The truth is, when painful emotions are running high, we don’t care about making wise decisions, so we pretty much do what we feel like doing.
- Wise people know when they don’t know and are not so foolish as to pretend they do know.
- Wise people know when they don’t know and they’re not afraid to go to those who do know.
- Face it, one of the primary reasons we don’t seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear-and we just don’t want to hear it.