Quotes

 "When I am revealed and my heart is laid bare...my heart is being exposed to myself and to God so that I might know him better....even self knowledge is about God knowledge, even the exposure of ourselves is about the exposure of Christ to ourselves because if we don't know the depth of our own hardness we won't know how we are excluding him from there"

- John Piper

 

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." -C.S. Lewis 

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one” - C.S Lewis

"The biggest single cause of atheism is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, then walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable."

"It would seem that Our Lord finds our
desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures,
fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is
offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies
in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a
...holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." -C.S. Lewis

"We are too young to realize certain things are impossible, so we will do them anyway."

 

  It is not man's laws or ordinances that hinder me,

but rather myself.

My affection for temporary things.

My desire for man's approval.

My love for vain fancies.

These are the things that keep me from bearing more fruit.

These are the things things that keep me from growing closer to Jesus Christ.

These are the things I must rid my life of. 

~Bethany Beasely

It's not how many times you've gone through the Word of God,

but how many times the Word has gone through you.

-D.L. Moody

 

 

"The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours."

~John Piper

 

 

We must never try to make our dreams for success or accomplishment God's purpose for us. God's end, His purpose for us, is the process. God's training is for now, not presently. What men call training and preparation, God calls the end. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. If we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment is precious.

-Oswald Chambers

 

                                           "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
                                                                           -Goethe

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

                                                                        – C.S. Lewis

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

                                                ~ Helen Keller (who was both blind and deaf)

"My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That's all. You were made for God. Don't waste it." -John Piper

"Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they're not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes." 

~David Platt

"After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very

often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this
power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or
truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of
the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves
and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust
ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair
even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit

down content with anything less than perfection."

                                                                    ~C.S. Lewis

"The one thing Christianity can’t be is moderately important: either it’s
untrue, in which case it’s of no importance at all, or it’s true, in which case
it demands your whole life." --C.S. Lewis

 

 "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only ...to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same."

C.S. Lewis

 

It's not about me. And in case you were wondering, it's probably not about you either.

"Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for."Elisabeth Elliot

 

"If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart." ~Oswald Chambers

"Even when my heart breaks
And everything's shaking
I'm left alone in the rain
You won't let me go
Life's insane
...And everything's crazy
You carry me through the pain
You won't let me go....
He'll never let you go"

"We live in a world shattered. Each step reechoes the cracking of broken glass. Shards at first removed from aching feet, and then...finally...tolerated. Longing to recover the tranquil garden of gentle grass"

True contentment is a real, even an active, virtue--not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.-G.K. Chesterton

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." ~C.S. Lewis

"He is our Father, and He loves us, and He knows just what is best, and therefore, of course, His will is the very most blessed thing that can come to us under any circumstances... Could we but for one moment get a glimpse into the mighty depths of His love, our hearts would spring out to meet His will, and embrace it as our richest treasure. And we would abandon ourselves to it with an enthusiasm of gratitude and joy, that such a wondrous privilege could be ours."                ~Hannah Whitall Smith

"It takes God's spirit in us to make us so absolutely humanly His that we are utterly unnoticeable." Oswald Chambers

"If Christianity were a crime, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"

In this life you will know
Love and pain
Joy and sorrow
So when it hurts
When times get hard
...Don't ever forget Who's child you are

 "Has the world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."
~C. S. Lewis

Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.

--Theodore Epp

"But God wills our good, and our good is to love Him...and to love Him we must know Him: and if we know Him, we shall in fact fall on our faces...Yet the call is not only to prostration and awe; it is to a reflection of the Divine life, a creaturely participation in the Divine attributes which is far beyond our present desires. We are bidden to "put on Christ," to become like God. That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little."
C.S. Lewis