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“I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“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

“One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.”
― Lee Smolin

“If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active enough to save souls. He must be big enough to be gentle and great enough to be thoughtful. His arms must be strong enough to carry a little child.”
― Ruth Bell

“Her soul is Alive. And we are drawn to her.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.”
― Matthew Kelly

“I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter--the Eternity they have entered--where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“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

“He wants a fifteen thousand pound settlement."
"Fifteen thousand!"
"He says you're a great deal of trouble."
She hesitated for one startled moment before choking back a laugh.
"I am."
"I thought so." He leveled Drew a look. "If I pay you the fifteen thousand, do you swear to keep her?"
Drew reared back his head. "Forever?"
Her father scowled. "Forever."
"Oh, I suppose." He gave a long-suffering sigh. "If I must."
She bit the insides of her cheeks to keep from laughing outright.”
― Deeanne Gist, A Bride Most Begrudging

“Men and women are needed whose prayers will give to the world the utmost power of God; who will make His promises to blossom with rich and full results. God is waiting to hear us and challenges us to bring Him to do this thing by our praying. He is asking us, to-day, as He did His ancient Israel, to prove Him now herewith." Behind God's Word is God Himself, and we read: "Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, his Maker: Ask of me of things to come and concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me." As though God places Himself in the hands and at the disposal of His people who pray - as indeed He does. The dominant element of all praying is faith, that is conspicuous, cardinal and emphatic. Without such faith it is impossible to please God, and equally impossible to pray.”
― E.M. Bounds, The Weapon of Prayer

“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 Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics

“Father
Break my heart for what breaks yours
Give me open hands and open doors
Put your light in my eyes and let me see
That my own little world is not about me”
― Matthew West

“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...

“Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.”
― John Green

“But God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly grasp, because God hates, literally abhors, evil, yet He created a world where evil could happen if people chose it.”
― Dee Henderson, Taken

“May you get more out of life than a cup of tea.”
― Rebecca St. James

“because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.”
― Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

“We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you’re trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans are the best—for YOU—and so is your personality. You’re so worth it”
― Nancy Rue, That Is SO Me: 365 Days of Devotions: Flip-Flops, Faith, and Friends

“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

“Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“As you engage the enemy and pray the powerful prayer points in this book, pray them with Holy Spirit fire, full of faith and expecting that your prayers will destroy the satanic powers of the devil and his cronies, in the spirit realm, at the very moment you release the arsenals of heaven upon their heads.”
― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom

“Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead”
― John Paul Warren

“That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then a
new thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver went
up her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis of
grace?”
― Penelope Marzec, A Rush of Light

“If you search for God you will find him and He will not give up on you".”
― Michele Woolley, God's Favor - Breath Of Heaven

“If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 1

“She was an extension of his dreams. A sprinkling of magic dust, of unfeasible wishes, on his stable existence. The one thing-the one bright, marvelous thing-he wanted more than the world, but didn't deserve. However much he was tortured for her sake, however much blood he had spilled to protect her, the bruises to his body and the thrashings to his sanity, it would never be enough to make a wretch like him worthy of such a miracle.”
― V.S. Carnes, Sand for Dreams

“Before one can walk as Christ walked,
and talk as He talked,
he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”
― A A Allen

“His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson