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"“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

tags: atheist, christian, jesus, lifestyle
9 people liked it

""I grew up hearing everyone tell me 'God loves you'. I would say big deal, God loves everybody. That don't make me special! That just proves that God ain't got no taste. And, I don't think He does. Thank God! Because He takes the junk of our lives and makes the most beautiful art.""
— Rich Mullins (Rich Mullins: Home)

6 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,652 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,601 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,142 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,166 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,253 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,012 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,692 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,061 people liked it

"Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to...

- Frodo to Sam"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: adventure
476 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

758 people liked it

"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass. (Sam - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: inspirational, screenplay
317 people liked it

"I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: friendship
203 people liked it

"I will not say, Do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: gandalf, grief
123 people liked it

"I'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: friendship, frodo
53 people liked it

"'You cannot pass,' he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. 'I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.'"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

44 people liked it

""Not even the very wise can see all ends.""
— J.R.R. Tolkien

26 people liked it

""From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken: The crownless again shall be king.""
— J.R.R. Tolkien

23 people liked it

"You shall not pass!
-Gandalf Greyhame"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

13 people liked it

"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: philosophy
11 people liked it

"Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

6 people liked it

"The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves."
— Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest Updated Edition)

2 people liked it

"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading."
— Oswald Chambers

13 people liked it

"It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes"
— Oswald Chambers

13 people liked it

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work."
— Oswald Chambers

tags: religious
18 people liked it

"We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. "
— Oswald Chambers

tags: inspirational
5 people liked it

"Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is."
— Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for Everyday)

11 people liked it

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,502 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,319 people liked it

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
1,648 people liked it

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world
964 people liked it

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, religion
472 people liked it

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, happiness, religion
453 people liked it

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, pain
229 people liked it

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

64 people liked it

"I was with book, as a woman is with child."
— C. S. Lewis (Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold)

tags: books
47 people liked it

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: education
120 people liked it

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, reading
227 people liked it

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
— C.S. Lewis

78 people liked it

"Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

45 people liked it

"Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!"
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

tags: religion
33 people liked it

"Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless."
— Randy Alcorn (Lord Foulgrin's Letters)

2 people liked it

"He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome."
— Randy Alcorn (Lord Foulgrin's Letters)

2 people liked it

"The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity."
— Randy Alcorn (Lord Foulgrin's Letters)

tags: faith
3 people liked it

"Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us. "
— Randy Alcorn

3 people liked it

""Dont forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.""
— from "Lord Foulgrin's Letter" - Randy Alcorn

1 person liked it

"You always have God's undivided attention."
— Charles F. Stanley

6 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
2,949 people liked it

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion
1,092 people liked it

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