“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
— C. S. Lewis“Can you be a girl for a few seconds?I'm always a girl I frown.You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girlI twirl my hair around my finger. Kay.”
— Veronica Roth“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
— C.S. Lewis“Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”
— Criss Jami“Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.”
— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica“Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”
— Francine Rivers“Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.”
— Steve Maraboli“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
— Christina Westover“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”
— Shannon L. Alder“I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)”
— Anonymous“The need for intimacy with the Creator never left us; it was embedded in our very nature.”
— Ami Loper“The person you became with her is worth being.”
— Veronica Roth“Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
— R.D. Ronald“Mistletoe, said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it. Good thinking, said Luna seriously. It's often infested with nargles.”
— J.K. Rowling“I have to return some videotapes”
— Bret Easton Ellis“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
— Lord Byron“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
— Hans Urs von Balthasar“Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.”
— Peter Kreeft“Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.”
— Peter Kreeft“What comes, is called.”
— Ki Longfellow“You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.”
— Michael Bassey Johnson“Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!”
— Fulton J. Sheen“Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.”
— Peter Kreeft“The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.”
— Fulton J. Sheen“The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his lifeuntil he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.”
— Peter Kreeft“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”
— Patience Johnson“Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.”
— Clarence Jordan“God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.”
— Clarence Jordan“Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.”
— Clarence Jordan“The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.”
— Geerhardus Vos“Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.”
— Gordon H. Clark“I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake ofdivine vanity.”
— Kedar Joshi“The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
— Soren A. Kierkegaard“You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”
— Charles H. Spurgeon“You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody...”
— Bob Dylan“And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
— Anonymous“Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.”
— Fulton J. Sheen“Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.”
— Elizabeth George“The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.”
— Louis Zamperini“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”
— Anonymous“we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely. ”
— Brennan Manning“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
— Isaac Newton“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
— Anonymous“I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.”
— Diet Eman“O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.”
— John Irving“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”
— Christopher Hitchens“When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.”
— Swindoll Charles R.“CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!”
— Ron Sanders“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”
— Gerard Manley Hopkins“God is not interested in your art but, your heart.”
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha