Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

He made you you-nique.

If you aren’t you, we don’t get you.

God endows us with gifts so we can make him known.

No deje que la comezón por las cosas materiales ni el oído para los aplausos le descarrile de los designios que Dios tiene para usted.

make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that” (Gal. 6: 4 MSG).

If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 4:11).When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

In 1900 the average person living in the United States wanted seventy-two different things and considered eighteen of them essential. Today the average person wants five hundred things and considers one hundred of them essential.

Don’t worry about skills you don’t have. Don’t covet strengths others do have. Just extract your uniqueness.

You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.

Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.

Look back over your life. What have you consistently done well? What have you loved to do? Stand at the intersection of your affections and successes and find your uniqueness.