Quotes about Performance

The Wetheralls always went to church. They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

I started training again four months after giving birth, and it was strange not to be fully in control - I'm so used to my body performing at a certain level, but it wasn't. I was like, 'Oh, man, can we go back to where we were, please?'

If I'm on stage and ministering my heart and pointing people to Christ, then that's all I can do.

It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

Before Jesus, it was all about earning and meriting and performing, and Paul knew that would eat us all alive—as it has.

The biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. It is about realization and not performance principles.

It is religion's job to teach us and guide us on this discovery of our True Self, but it usually makes the mistake of turning this into a worthiness contest of some sort, a private performance, or some kind of religious achievement on our part, through our belonging to the right group, practicing the right rituals, or believing the right things.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

To do something is in every man's power.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.