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Peace shouldn't be an option, it must be the objective, peace shouldn't be a possibility, it must be the purpose.
— Amit Kalantri
Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.
— Amit Kalantri
Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness.
— Amit Kalantri
If you always do "just enough" you'll never have more than enough.
— Rob Liano
Sometimes your pledges become your problems.
— Amit Kalantri
In all spheres of life, there are constraints. You have to develop your own strategy to overcome each constraint.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never doubt, pray and believe.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I'm less concerned with how hard you can work and how much time and effort you can dedicate to a project when everything is going right.Plenty of people can do that.I'm more concerned with how hard you can work and how much time and effort you can dedicate to a project when everything is going wrong.That's a rarity and shows true honor, true character and will lead you that much closer to success.
— Loren Weisman
For you the guy should be the one who will look like the God among the guys.
— Amit Kalantri
Pursue your God-given goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The best way to reach your Goal is to say "NO" more than you say "YES
— Todd Stocker, Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one's ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one's share.
— Amit Kalantri
If you want you can die any way you want, but no matter how much you try you cannot live the way you want.
— Amit Kalantri
Will Smith > Quotes > Quotable Quote“The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?You're not going to out-work me. It's such a simple, basic concept. The guy who is willing to hustle the most is going to be the guy that just gets that loose ball. The majority of people who aren't getting the places they want or aren't achieving the things that they want in this business is strictly based on hustle. It's strictly based on being out-worked; it's strictly based on missing crucial opportunities. I say all the time if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready.
— Will Smith
You can accomplish far greater things when you depend on a divine power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Seek what you want.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God is love. He who loves knows God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life is like a guitar
—  Tune. Play. Repeat.
Best Quote of the day: Don't just sit and read the Quote of the day
—  Implement it.
One of the best things you can do in life is to embrace who you are. Once you do that NOTHING can stop you. You have found the greatest gift that has been given. The gift of self importance.
— Auliq Ice
Adversities are opportunities for a daring life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.
— Amit Kalantri
Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.
— Amit Kalantri
If people are jealous of you, it means you are worth something.
— Amit Kalantri
The truth which has been spoken too late is more damaging than a lie.
— Amit Kalantri
Life gives us experiences for personal development. Appreciate the lessons and be a learner.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life is a teacher. We are the student.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.
— Amit Kalantri
Ocean is not supposed to be scared of the drops.
— Amit Kalantri
Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.
— Amit Kalantri
Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler.
— Amit Kalantri
The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.
— Amit Kalantri
A doctor, a teacher and a politician have no caste.
— Amit Kalantri
All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisationof their dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope is an enthusiastic assurance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In life things get complicated, but it works out eventuallyIt always does
— Essa Alam
We can only live life when we understand life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
As always, the solutions is the simplest way: we have to start and lead by example.
— Da Anunciação Marco
True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.
— Amit Kalantri
You are your own star.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life is game. Never fear to play the game.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Wherever there is peace, there is progress.
— Amit Kalantri
At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.
— Amit Kalantri
When the tough get going, the going gets easier.
— Joe Siciliano Sr.
Want to turn your dream in idea? Then write how wonderful it is with all the details. But never forget to plan step by step how to make it a reality. Dream without action does not produce results.
— Da Anunciação Marco
State of the Art is the frenetic and relentless pursuit of doing what its best at that time!
— Da Anunciação Marco
If you do not like how things are going, think in new ways, create new solutions and do not even think about giving up!
— Da Anunciação Marco
Identify the environment where we live and work is important to make us better.
— Da Anunciação Marco
you are not a failure , belive that you can do what people think you can not do ,
— siphesihle manzini
You are the mirror image that reflects the attitudes which took in your life with what you have learned during the journey.
— Da Anunciação Marco
No. No!” he says.“I . . .” He looks wildly around the room. For inspiration? For divine intervention? I don’t know.“You can’t go. Ana, I love you!”“I love you, too, Christian, it’s just—”“No . . . no!” he says in desperation and puts both hands on his head. “Christian . 
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.
— Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
— William Paul Young, The Shack
That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have been for the most part extremely wicked. You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so-called ages of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with all its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burned as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.You may think that I am going too far when I say that that is still so. I do not think that I am. Take one fact. You will bear with me if I mention it. It is not a pleasant fact, but the churches compel one to mention facts that are not pleasant. Supposing that in this world that we live in today an inexperienced girl is married to a syphilitic man; in that case the Catholic Church says, 'This is an indissoluble sacrament. You must endure celibacy or stay together. And if you stay together, you must not use birth control to prevent the birth of syphilitic children.' Nobody whose natural sympathies have not been warped by dogma, or whose moral nature was not absolutely dead to all sense of suffering, could maintain that it is right and proper that that state of things should continue.That is only an example. There are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering. And of course, as we know, it is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. 'What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. 
— Donald Miller
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
— Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability— and that it may take a very long time.And so I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually—let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste.Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow.Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be.Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you,and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 NIV)
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV)
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display. To do this, the church must stop thinking about everybody primarily in categories of in or out, saved or not, believer or nonbeliever. Besides the fact that these terms are offensive to those who are the "un" and "non", they work against Jesus' teachings about how we are to treat each other. Jesus commanded us to love our neighbor, and our neighbor can be anybody. We are all created in the image of God, and we are all sacred, valuable creations of God. Everybody matters. To treat people differently based on who believes what is to fail to respect the image of God in everyone. As the book of James says, "God shows no favoritism." So we don't either.
— Rob Bell
Iʹve seen you too. Ozera. Crispin, right?ʺʺChristian,ʺ corrected Lissa.ʺRight.ʺ....ʺSo what brings you and Christopher here?ʺ asked Blake. He finished a glass of something amber colored and set it down beside the new drink.ʺChristian,ʺ said Christian.....Blake gave her puppy-dog eyes. ʺBut you just got here! I was hoping we could get to know each other.ʺ It went without saying what he meant by that. ʺOh. And Kreskin too.
— Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
Blake smiled radiantly. ʺMay I call you Vasilisa?ʺʺYou can call me Lissa.ʺʺYou can also,ʺ added Christian, ʺlet go of her hand now.
— Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
— Kevin Max
I love you," he murmurs. "Can you feel that? You. Not some destiny I think I'm called to. You. I'm with you. My strength. My soul. My heart. Feel it.
— Cynthia Hand, Boundless
I felt the fangs against my neck and knew I was going to die. It was horrible. I wanted to live so, so badly...but this was how it would end. With my last moments, I started to yell at Christian to run, but then the Strigoi above my suddenly lit up like a torch. He jerked back, and I rolled out from underneath him.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I turned to Christian, who was crouched on the ground. "Wow," I said, helping him up. Obviously, he was the one who had saved me. "No shit," he said. "Didn't know I had that much power.
— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
Goodbye, Christian," I murmur."Ana, goodbye," he says softly, and he looks utterly, utterly broken,a man in agonizing pain, reflecting how I feel inside. I tear my gaze away from him before I can change my mind and try to comfort him.The elevator doors close close and it whisks me down to the bowels of the basement and to my own personal hell.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
I saw a banner hanging next to city hall in downtown Philadelphia that read, "Kill them all, and let God sort them out." A bumper sticker read, "God will judge evildoers; we just have to get them to him." I saw a T-shirt on a soldier that said, "US Air Force... we don't die; we just go to hell to regroup." Others were less dramatic- red, white, and blue billboards saying, "God bless our troops." "God Bless America" became a marketing strategy. One store hung an ad in their window that said, "God bless America--$1 burgers." Patriotism was everywhere, including in our altars and church buildings. In the aftermath of September 11th, most Christian bookstores had a section with books on the event, calendars, devotionals, buttons, all decorated in the colors of America, draped in stars and stripes, and sprinkled with golden eagles.  This burst of nationalism reveals the deep longing we all have for community, a natural thirst for intimacy... September 11th shattered the self-sufficient, autonomous individual, and we saw a country of broken fragile people who longed for community- for people to cry with, be angry with, to suffer with. People did not want to be alone in their sorrow, rage, and fear.  But what happened after September 11th broke my heart. Conservative Christians rallies around the drums of war. Liberal Christian took to the streets. The cross was smothered by the flag and trampled under the feet of angry protesters. The church community was lost, so the many hungry seekers found community in the civic religion of American patriotism. People were hurting and crying out for healing, for salvation in the best sense of the word, as in the salve with which you dress a wound. A people longing for a savior placed their faith in the fragile hands of human logic and military strength, which have always let us down. They have always fallen short of the glory of God. ...The tragedy of the church's reaction to September 11th is not that we rallied around the families in New York and D.C. but that our love simply reflected the borders and allegiances of the world. We mourned the deaths of each soldier, as we should, but we did not feel the same anger and pain for each Iraqi death, or for the folks abused in the Abu Ghraib prison incident. We got farther and farther from Jesus' vision, which extends beyond our rational love and the boundaries we have established. There is no doubt that we must mourn those lives on September 11th. We must mourn the lives of the soldiers. But with the same passion and outrage, we must mourn the lives of every Iraqi who is lost. They are just as precious, no more, no less. In our rebirth, every life lost in Iraq is just as tragic as a life lost in New York or D.C. And the lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like six September 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.
— Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot
— Augustine of Hippo
The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with better morals but to create a community of prophets and professional lovers, men and women who would surrender to the mystery of the fire of the Spirit that burns within, who would live in ever greater fidelity to the omnipresent Word of God, who would enter into the center of it all, the very heart and mystery of Christ, into the center of the flame that consumes, purifies, and sets everything aglow with peace, joy, boldness, and extravagant, furious love. This, my friend, is what it really means to be a Christian.
— Brennan Manning, The Furious Longing of God
Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. 
— Martin Luther, Luther's Works, 33: Career of the Reformer III
Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.
— Beth Moore, Daniel Audio CD Set: Lives of Integrity, Words of Prophecy
I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy
She heard Adrian say to Christian, ʺYou know, your shirtʹs kind of grungy-looking. Seems like you could put in a little more effort since youʹre dating a princess.ʺ
— Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
— Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we're called to win a crown that is imperishable?
— Paul David Washer
I must be dreaming. Bring that sweet ass over here and I'll show you what God made women and well-hung Scotsmen for.
— Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
Everything is possible for him who believes
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youʹd actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I donʹt think sheʹs joking.
— Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
When did wishing someone a Merry Christmas become politically incorrect?
— Suzanne Woods Fisher, A Lancaster County Christmas
Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
— Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you.
— Robin Jones Gunn, Sunsets
That's it. Love makes us all strong.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
And so a pattern develops: wake, work cry. sleep. I can't even escape him in my dreams. Gray burning eyes, his lost look, his hair burnished and bright and bright all haunt me. And the music... so much music-I cannot bear to hear any music. I am careful to avoid it at all costs. Even the jingles in commercials make me shudder.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?
— Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever
God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
— Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
Okay," Christian said with a great show at maintaining his patience. "So you can't dance. But you could at least talk to the woman."Julius frowned and avoided his gaze. "I am talking.""You aren't," Christian insisted. "You haven't said more than a handful of words."Scowling, he admitted, "I'm practicing in my head."Christian blinked at this. "Practicing?""Well, you don't just blurt out the first thing that comes to mind," Julius said with exasperation. "I have to approach this carefully, so I'm practicing.""In your head?" Christian clarified."Yes." Julius nodded. "In my head.""Right....Good, good," he nodded, and then said "but you know what would be even better?"Julius raised his eyebrows with interest. "What?""Talking to her OUT LOUD!" Christian snapped. "Jesus Christ, Father, you're as old as the earth. You run a huge corporation, dealing with people-even women-day in day out. Surely you can string a couple of words together and manage a little conversation with the woman?
— Lynsay Sands, Vampire, Interrupted
Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
Okay, why don't we practice your talking with Marguerite? OUT LOUD. I'll be her."Julius stared at him blankly. "Now?""No, I was thinking maybe next April. Then you could maybe give her a call, arrange a date..."He arched his eyebrow in question, and snapped, "Yes, NOW.
— Lynsay Sands, Vampire, Interrupted
Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
— Joni Eareckson Tada, A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty
To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.
— Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary
Kinship– not serving the other, but being one with the other. Jesus was not “a man for others”; he was one with them. There is a world of difference in that.
— Gregory J. Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
If anyone attempted to rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and sword on the plea that all are baptized and Christian, and that, according to the gospel, there shall be among them no law or sword - or need for either - pray tell me, friend, what would he be doing? He would be loosing the ropes and chains of the savage wild beasts and letting them bite and mangle everyone, meanwhile insisting that they were harmless, tame, and gentle creatures; but I would have the proof in my wounds. Just so would the wicked under the name of Christian abuse evangelical freedom, carry on their rascality, and insist that they were Christians subject neither to law nor sword, as some are already raving and ranting.To such a one we must say: Certainly it is true that Christians, so far as they themselves are concerned, are subject neither to law nor sword, and have need of neither. But take heed and first fill the world with real Christians before you attempt to rule it in a Christian and evangelical manner. This you will never accomplish; for the world and the masses are and always will be unchristian, even if they are all baptized and Christian in name. Christians are few and far between (as the saying is). Therefore, it is out of the question that there should be a common Christian government over the whole world, or indeed over a single country or any considerable body of people, for the wicked always outnumber the good. Hence, a man who would venture to govern an entire country or the world with the gospel would be like a shepherd who should put together in one fold wolves, lions, eagles, and sheep, and let them mingle freely with one another, saying, “Help yourselves, and be good and peaceful toward one another. The fold is open, there is plenty of food. You need have no fear of dogs and clubs.” The sheep would doubtless keep the peace and allow themselves to be fed and governed peacefully, but they would not live long, nor would one beast survive another.For this reason one must carefully distinguish between these two governments. Both must be permitted to remain; the one to produce righteousness, the other to bring about external peace and prevent evil deeds. Neither one is sufficient in the world without the other. No one can become righteous in the sight of God by means of the temporal government, without Christ's spiritual government. Christ's government does not extend over all men; rather, Christians are always a minority in the midst of non-Christians. Now where temporal government or law alone prevails, there sheer hypocrisy is inevitable, even though the commandments be God's very own. For without the Holy Spirit in the heart no one becomes truly righteous, no matter how fine the works he does. On the other hand, where the spiritual government alone prevails over land and people, there wickedness is given free rein and the door is open for all manner of rascality, for the world as a whole cannot receive or comprehend it. 
— Martin Luther, Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority
Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
— William Booth
And,” Kay adds as her final touch, “Christian Prescott is my boyfriend.”I dislike her already.
— Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
As a serf, poor Christian has already been killed several times in our class. Aside from dying of the Black Plague on the first day, he’s starved to death, had his hands cut off for stealing a loaf of bread, and been run down by his master’s horse just for kicks. He’s like Christian the fifth now.
— Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
Once again, my hero. And here I’m supposed to be the one saving him.
— Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness
— David Wilkerson, The Cross and the Switchblade
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
— Herman Melville
Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act of humility is a staggering notion. As it is, He willingly gave His blood, in the flesh, so that others might find life, for it is written: "He did not come by water only, but by blood," and "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission." Now blood is required to give new life to the dead. I tell you, He did not give only a small amount to satisfy this requirement. He was beaten and crushed and pierced until that blood flowed like a river for the sake of love. It was for love, not religion, that He died. There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.
— Ted Dekker, Immanuel's Veins
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction. 
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'm not just one flavor. You're not either. So it all comes down to which 'you' you want to show the world.
— Cyn Balog, Starstruck
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
— Leo Tolstoy
Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Our God is Greater, Our God is Stronger, God, you are Higher than any other, Our God is Healer, Awesome in Power, Our God,Our God.
— Chris Tomlin, And If Our God Is for Us...
Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its inherent opportunity to choose virtue and reject iniquity. “What shall a man gain if he has the whole world and lose his soul,” (Matt. 16: v. 26) - but for a notorious name, the ethereal shadow of a career, and a brief life of fleeting pleasure with no true peace? This was the blackest and most captivating tragedy of all, few could have remained indifferent to the growing intrigue of this individual who apparently shook hands with the devil and freely chose to descend to the molten, sulphuric chasm of Hell for all eternity for so little in exchange. It is a drama that continues to fascinate today as powerfully as when Faustus first disseminated his infamous card in the Heidelberg locale to the scandal of his generation. In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Volume 1
You're not Forsaken. You're Chosen for Purpose.
— Vanessa Richardson, The Certain Ones: You're Not Forsaken. You're Chosen for Purpose.
I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me.-Streetwalking with Jesus
— John Green
The Lord will provide.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
— Matthew Kelly
Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.
— Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?
— Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians: A Christian's Guide to Faith and Politics, a Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics
What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.
— John Shelby Spong
May you get more out of life than a cup of tea.
— Rebecca St. James
And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
— Chris Tomlin, And If Our God Is for Us...
Unafraid, Unashamed, Lord we know who we are,We are the people and we won't be silent.Unified hear us cry at the top of our lungs,You are our God and we will not be shaken!
— Hillsong United
I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it?
— Lisa Samson, Hollywood Nobody
If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Volume 1
His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.
— Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.
— Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
— John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress
I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?
— C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
— Jonathan Edwards, The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader
[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.
— Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.
— Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair.
— Neta Jackson, Who Is My Shelter?
When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart. 
— LaMar Boschman
We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
If you really think there's a Santa, why don't you sit on the front steps all night in the freezing cold and see if he climbs down any chimneys tonight. Good luck. And since we're a family that isn't lucky enough to have a chimney, how would Santa get into our house? Does he bring a locksmith with him? And it probably would have to be a Jewish locksmith, because a Christian locksmith is going to want to be home with his family. And how many Jewish locksmiths are there? None.
— Lewis Black, I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas
Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? (Luke 6:46)
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures.
— Robert McGee, The Search for Significance - Workbook: Build Your Self-Worth on God's Truth
Hebrews 12:1- Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Volume 1
By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity
If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.
— Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.
— Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
It's just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don't hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when you've seen it it's still a mystery. But the mystagogues hide a thing in darkness and secrecy, and when you find it, it's a platitude.
— G.K. Chesterton
Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.
— Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You
You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
— A.J. Gordon
... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.
— Timothy J. Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
— Jerry Bridges, The Fruitful Life
...we are to be lights in the world. It is God's business to light us, to set us on the lampstand, and to bring the people into the house. Our only duty is to shine forth with the gospel.
— Marva J. Dawn, Reaching Out without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength
— Jake Bible
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.
— Marva J. Dawn, Reaching Out without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time
The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.
— Elton Trueblood
If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.
— Chuck Black, Kingdom's Dawn
Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.
— Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called.
— Judy Baer, An Unlikely Blessing
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
— Shaunti Feldhahn, The Life Ready Woman: Thriving in a Do-It-All World
All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.
— M.J. Chrisman
Treat your family like guests and your guests like family.
— Judy Baer, An Unlikely Blessing
The Lord speaks to each one of us in different ways. He may use your mother, your sister, your child, or even your boss. He might even use an unbeliever. God never said his messages would come in nicely wrapped packages from your pastor," the pastor could be heard saying from inside the packed church. "God doesn't do things the way WE want them done. He does things the way we NEED them done, so he can get out of us what holds us back, what keeps us from him. He wants to help us reach the next level. He sends us what we need, when we need it, in HIS time. We are on his schedule, not the other way around.
— Kiexiza Rodriquez, Beautiful
Oooh, dinner and a show! How come you never take us to dinner and a show?"He smiled at Roxy. "I would spend the entire evening fending off the hordes of your admirers."She fanned herself and grinned back at him. "You gotta love all that suave debonairness!
— Katie MacAlister, Sex and the Single Vampire
Well, one day all the world’s wizards and witches will kneel before Jesus and call Him ‘Lord.
— Jim Yackel, Dead-Ringer
A lot of churches and church people give God a bad name. There's a scripture in the Bible that says the traditions of men make the word of God of none effect. That's so true. All our religious rituals dilute the reality of who God is and make a lot of people not want to have anything to do with Him. I had to learn to reject 'Churchianity' and not Christianity.
— Sherri L. Lewis, Dance Into Destiny
Empowering children through the Word of God so excellence is the standard not the exception
— Jacqui Wilson
The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.
— Shaunti Feldhahn, The Life Ready Woman: Thriving in a Do-It-All World
We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.
— Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion
Before one can walk as Christ walked,and talk as He talked,he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
— A.A. Allen
Hearing God is not all that difficult. If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice - after all it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening. After the what of guidance comes the when and how." (11)
— Loren Cunningham, Is That Really You, God?: Hearing the Voice of God
You see, Yousef, you can't force someone in their hearts to believe the way you do. They all tried and failed. They judged by their own convictions--not even by the truth of the teachings of Isa. No one is above God's judgment. No one has the right to judge for him.
— Pola Muzyka, Escape the Hezbollah
There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies
A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward.
— Shaunti Feldhahn, The Life Ready Woman: Thriving in a Do-It-All World
You speak Arabic? Tell him my name is Infidel Redeemed by Christ.
— Lili Tufel, Sand
You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.
— Jason Evert
Fruitfulness may be a better measurement for success than productivity because it is based more in the evaluations of others as to the meaningful role we have played in their lives then in our own importance determined according to the amount of accomplishments we can list.
— Karen Burton Mains
I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna was pretty risqué too, but she was pretty much always known as a "bad girl." Mariah was a good girl, supposedly Christian, turning very bad, in the late 90's. So then, all the other little girls and teens and women across America thought it would be ok for them to "come out" too essentially, or flaunt whatever they had. Modesty went completely out the window for many women, starting in the late 90's.
— Lisa Bedrick, On Christian Hot Topics
She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?
— Stacy Hawkins Adams, Lead Me Home
I've learned life is a lot like surfing. When you get caught in the impact zone, you need to get right back up, because you never know what's over the next wave......and if you have faith, anything is possible, anything at all.
— Soul Surfer
I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.
— Soul Surfer
...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
— Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
She just asked me to pick her up some tampons and a Yoo-Hoo." ~Alex Sinclair
— Jenny B. Jones, Save the Date
Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state.
— Blaise Pascal
...I realized how naive I was. My aunt Tina was right: this stuff does exist, and it does hurt people, and although there are lots of people at Liberty who condemn violence against gays--including Dr. Falwell himself--the number of students who want to give them the Goliath treatment isn't zero. In fact, the number who live in my room isn't zero.
— Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Even they would think you a monster were you toorchestrate a divorce right after my confinement.”“How long do you recommend I wait, then?”“A long time. I know what happens when a divorce is granted:The woman never gets anything. And I will not be parted from my child.”“So you will contest the divorce?”“To my last penny. And then I’ll borrow from Fitz and Millie.”“So we’ll be married ’til the end of time?”“The sooner you accept it, the sooner we are all better off.”His ancestors would have appreciated her hauteur: a fit wife for a de Montfort. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I must have enough rest.”He gazed at her retreating back. Foolish woman, did she not realize that he’d already accepted it from the moment he’d said “I do”?
— Sherry Thomas, Beguiling the Beauty