“It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.”
— Francis Chan, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
March 2012
4 posts
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
—Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”
—Francis Chan
“But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.”
—Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
January 2012
12 posts
“the mass of people have received the new way of thinking through mass media without analyzing it.”
—Francis Schaeffer, Escape from Reason - chapter 3 (via recordlover)
“Pressure makes diamonds.”
—General George S. Patton (via audreycaptures)
There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither of them work.
“The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph.”
—Butterfly Circus (via blissfulmusings)
“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love… true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.”
—Uncle Hub (Secondhand Lions)
“If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?”
—Anonymous
“The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over drenched in sweat at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.”
—Anson Dorrance
“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
“Faith does not create a reality, it merely realizes.”
—Jeff Turner
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
-Mariane Williamson” —Mariane Williamson
-Mariane Williamson” —Mariane Williamson
September 2011
17 posts
“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”
—Chuck Palahniuk (via xxfurtherseemsforeverxx)
“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
—Haruki Murakami (via wassuphamtaro)
“Going through a breakup you feel all of these different things. You feel anger, and you feel confusion, and frustration. Then there is the absolute sadness. The sadness of losing this person, losing all the memories, and the hopes you had for the future. There are times when you have this moment of truth where you just admit to yourself that you miss all these things.”
—Taylor Swift (via wouldtheywriteasongforyou)
“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
—Stephen Chbosky ( The Perks of Being a Wall Flower)
