"Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live."
— Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson)

"No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

"Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. "
— Mitch Albom

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

"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
— C.S. Lewis

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

"[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Everyone there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes. But this is near the stage where the road passes over the rim of our world. No one's eyes can see very far beyond that: lots of people's eyes can see further than mine."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own."
— C. S. Lewis

"Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel."
— John Piper (God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself)

"If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full."
— John Piper (Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide)

"The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—
is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the
friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and
all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties
you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no
human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with
heaven, if Christ were not there? "
— John Piper (God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself)

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."
— Max Lucado

"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right."
— Max Lucado (He Still Moves Stones)

"God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus. "
— Max Lucado

"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be."
— Max Lucado

"You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman."
— Max Lucado (The Christmas Candle)

"He saw you cast into a river of life you didn't request. He saw you betrayed by those you love. He saw you with a body that gets sick and a heart that grows weak. He saw you in your own garden of gnarled trees and sleeping friends. He saw you staring into the pit of your own failures and the mouth of your own grave. He saw you in your own garden of Gethsemane and he didn't want you to be alone ... He would rather go to hell for you than to heaven without you."
— Max Lucado

"What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it. "
— Max Lucado (The Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado)

"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)

"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

"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now
mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

""What are we holding on to, Sam?" (Frodo)

"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for." (Sam)

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

"No Victory Without Suffering"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don’t concern yourself with being right in others’ eyes. And don’t secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don’t have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you."
— Joshua Harris (I Kissed Dating Goodbye)

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abe Lincoln

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."
— Abraham Lincoln

"I can see how it might be possible for someone to look around on earth and not believe in God, but I cannot conceive how anyone could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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— Abraham Lincoln

"If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. "
— Dale Carnegie

"Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car."
— G.K. Chesterton

"Life experiences are like quarters, you lose both when you're sitting around on the couch."
— Jamba Juice Cup

"The peace of God is that eternal calm which, like the cushion of the sea, lies far too deep down to be reached by any external trouble or disturbance; and he who enters into the presence of God becomes a partaker of that undisturbed and undisturbable calm."
— A.J. Pierson

"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
— David Livingstone

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
— C.S. Lewis

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
— Albert Einstein

"Truth is what stands the test of experience. "
— Albert Einstein

"...we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

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— Albert Einstein

"Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them"
— Albert Einstein

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door"
— Milton Berle

"Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting."
— Robin Hobb (Ship of Destiny)

"Start with the end in mind. "
— Stephen R. Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

"To know and not to do is really not to know."
— Stephen R. Covey

"...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know."
— Stephen R. Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
— Stephen R. Covey

"Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic"
— Stephen R. Covey

"You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity."
— Rick Warren (The Purpose-driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?)