Quotes that have been meaningful to me at some point in my life

  • “Be killing sin or it will be killing you.” – John Owen
  • “What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies” – Thomas Cranmer
  • “We’re far more afraid of hell, than we are excited for heaven.”
  • “Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.” – 1 Samuel 14:6
  • “The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.” – Bob Marley
  • “There is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it…What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened…Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues…If God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it — SOME.” – Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna
  • “Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.” 1 Timothy 1:15-17
  • “He had no desire to commune with Christ today. He simply needed the sight of other people. He needed to be surrounded by human beings” – Xenocide 
  • “Tough times never last, but tough people do” – Robert Schuller
  • “What, then, are You, O my God – what, I ask, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? Or who is God save our God (Ps. 17:32)? Most high, most excellent, most powerful, most omnipotent; most piteous and most just; most hidden and most near; most beautiful and most strong, stable, yet contained by none; unchangeable, yet changing all things; never new, never old; making all things new, yet bringing old age upon the proud without their knowing it (Job 9:5); always working, yet ever at rest; gathering, yet needing nothing; sustaining, pervading, and protecting; creating, nourishing, and developing; seeking, and yet possessing all things. You love, yet do not burn; are jealous, yet free from care; You repent, yet do not suffer; are angry, yet serene; You change Your ways, leaving Your plans unchanged; You recover what You find, without ever having lost it; You are never in want, while You rejoice in gain; never covetous, though requiring interest.’ That You may owe, more than enough is given to You; yet who has anything that is not Yours? You pay debts while owing nothing; and when You forgive debts, You lose nothing. Yet, O my God, my life, my holy joy, what is this that I have said? And what does anyone say when He speaks of You? Yet woe to them that keep silence, seeing that even they who say most are like the dumb.” St. Augustine, Confessions, 1.4.4
  • “There is something intrinsically beautiful about sadness”
  • The Struggle of Singleness Yet Beauty of Christ’s Sufficiency: One truth my friends and I constantly remind each other is this: We all have a God-sized void in our souls. ONLY GOD can fill and satisfy completely. NOTHING – no person, no success, no job or no intoxicating or shimmery thing in this world – will ever be enough. Only God is enough. As 27 is quickly approaching and I am still as single as ever, I remember Christ is more than enough. Christ is more than enough for me. Yes, the pain of loneliness is real. When you’re alone with just you and your thoughts at the end of day, wishing you could have a significant other to share them with. Yes, the pain of rejection is real. When you really really like someone, but they don’t seem to reciprocate. But God is so, so much greater than your pain. He is with you and sees you in the midst of your pain. I know the holidays can be tough for some, especially if you’ve dealt with the loss of a loved one, but remember, that you are never, ever alone. I pray that God will remind you today that you are deeply loved by Him and only He can satisfy. More recently, I’ve been thinking about the idea of being celibate. Sounds crazy or even like a nightmare to some, but I’m learning to be at peace with the idea of it. I used to joke with my friends in college that if we never got married, we could open up an orphanage and love on God’s precious little children. Honestly, what greater joy would it be to partner with God in loving upon His beloved? I don’t know God’s plans for me. It used to worry me a lot not to know the future. It would consume and enslave me. But I am continually learning to surrender my future to God and trust that He knows best. It’s a process. I am learning that “God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows.” (Pastor Tim Keller) I am learning that He works all things for the good of those who love Him, according to His purposes. (Romans 8:28) I am learning that He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. (Ephesians 3:20) I am learning to trust God all over again and it’s the best thing. For Christ is enough. Christ is more than enough for me. -Random Woman on Facebook 
  • “Her smile toward him was warm, not in the manner of a women encouraging a lover, but rather as a sister gives her brother the silent message of love, of confidence, of trust. She’s healing him”…”Not with words. Just with her company” -Xenocide 
  • “When you don’t understand the consequences of your acts, how can you be blamed for them?…You don’t take the blame,…but you still take responsibility. For healing the wounds you caused” -Xenocide
  • “We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.” – Charles Spurgeon
  • “Isn’t it funny that day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.” – C.S. Lewis
  • “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr 
  • “To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.” – Tim Keller
  • “They had made the fatal decision: they’d chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation” – Dune, Frank Herbert
  • “Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome” – Charlie Munger 
  • “Choices have to be made, not just debated. And they cannot be without costs” – S. Jaishankar 
  • “Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.” – Corrie Ten Boom
  • “Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.” – Arthur W. Pink
  • “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
  • “Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.” -Charles Spurgeon
  • “He strains to hear a whisper who refuses to hear a shout” -The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan
  • “One of the great dangers in modern dating is the tendency to adopt a consumer mentality rather than a companion mentality” – Single, dating, engaged, married, Ben Stuart 
  • “Many of us say that we would die for the sake of Christ. But if we’re not willing to live for Him in the smallest areas of life, what makes us think we’d be willing to die for Him?” – Emeal Zwayne
  • “So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.” 2 Timothy 2:22
  • “Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.” – A.W. Tozer 
  • “An ounce of obedience is better than a ton of learning.” – Charles Spurgeon
  • “God doesn’t work through us because we’re flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.” – A.W. Tozer 
  • “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis.
  • “Modernization comes at the expense of heritage” – City of Gold, Jim Krane
  • “I’m therefore working today as if I will die tomorrow and working for tomorrow as if I’m going to live forever” -Sheikh Mohammed, UAE 
  • “Hearing may tune the harp, but the fingers of living faith must create the music” – Spurgeon 
  • “Comparison is the thief of joy” – Theodore Roosevelt
  • “To desire revival…and at the same time to neglect prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.” – A.W. Tozer 
  • “When the government takes up arms against its unarmed subjects, then it has forfeited its right to govern. It has ruled that it cannot rule in peace and justice” – Mahatma Gandhi 
  • “Many people die at 25, but aren’t buried until 75” – Benjamin Franklin
  • “Predicting rain doesn’t count, building arks does” – Warren Buffett
  • “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” – G.K. Chesterton 
  • “Everything feels unprecedented when you haven’t engaged with history” – Kelly Hayes 
  • “You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher, or the Christian by staring in his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him” – C.S. Lewis
  • “Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer.” Romans 12:12
  • “Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink” – Dwight L. Moody
  • “Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.” – Wilt Chamberlain
  • “We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer 
  • “The devil’s substitute for joy is entertainment” – Leonard Ravenhill 
  • “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” – Leo Tolstoy
  • “It’s the rough side of the mountain that’s the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn’t have anything for you to hang on to.” – Aretha Franklin
  • “Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.” – Francis Chan
  • “If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime” – David Platt 
  • “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
  • “People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.” – Heinrich Heine
  • “Howard Hendricks once described the local church as a football game: Twenty-two people on the field, badly in need of a rest, and forty thousand in the stands, badly in need of exercise.”
  • “Friendship is the place you process your sin in real time. Not the place you go once you’re over it” – Justin Earley, Made For People. 
  • “Real love is for your good, not for your comfort” – Justin Earley, Made For People. 
  • “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus
  • “You can either be a con or a man – you can’t be both.” – White Collar Peter Burke 
  • “Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be.” – Mistborn: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
  • “You can either lower goals to match your effort or you can raise your effort to match your goals.” – Mike Krzyzewski
  • “I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth …that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.” – Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
  • “The man that can buy anything he covets, values nothing that he buys” – William Dawson 
  • “Talk is often a substitute for action” 
  • “Friendship demands attention” – Thomas More 
  • “We don’t rise to the standards we have when others are watching. We fall to the standards we have when no one is watching. The only work that really matters is the work no one sees. It’s shows you who you really are rather than who you say you are”
  • “A single footstep will not make a path on the earth. So a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” – Henry David Thoreau
  • “Everyone wants to be spider-man, but not Peter Parker”
  • “Improved means to an unimproved end” – Henry David Thoreau
  • “A ship is safe at shore, but that is not what it is built for.”
  • “Delayed obedience is still disobedience”
  • “Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest and sacrificial.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • “Lust will lead to hate once fulfilled” – Pastor Chris Martin 
  • “Since a wife is a complement to your mission, she cannot be the mission itself ” 
  • “Like all beliefs, you don’t need to say them, you live them”
  • “You did one of the most difficult things a man can do: you gave yourself a second chance” – Wind and Truth, Stormlight Archives 5, Brandon Sanderson 
  • In reflecting upon the infinite riches of God’s Word, Ephrem writes: “A thirsting man is happy when he is drinking, and he is not depressed because he cannot exhaust the spring. So let this spring quench your thirst, and not your thirst the spring. What you have received and attained is your present share, while what is left will be your heritage.” – St Ephrem. 
  • “Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun.” – Charlie Munger
  • “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.” – Pierce Brown, Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
  • “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16
  • “Even a wounded lion is still a lion” 
  • Regarding TV/Internet “She can watch other people’s opinions when she has opinions of her own” – Morning Star, Pierce Brown