This is from Leadership Challenge
"Leaders must challenge the process precisely because any system will unconsciously conspire to maintain status quo and prevent change. It is the nature of things organizationally not to change in a healthy direction. It is the nature of things organizationally to find a happy place and stay there forever and ever and ever and ever."

"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential." Barak Obama

I don't want to rip this quote apart or make a message out of it. The phrase "poverty of ambition" struck me. We want the good life without the work. In church circles we need to steer clear of a poverty of faith, where we want God's blessings to flow without following what he instructs in scripture to do. We need to steer clear from claiming the rewards without accepting the responsibilities. Our faith needs to be big enough to embrace God's blessing and to live sacrificially.