"God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life"
— John 3:16

"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."
— Oscar Wilde

"don't tell me Harry Potter is really about the Holy Grail"
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love endures forever. Psalm 118:29"
— Various

"For the Lord watches over the way
of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish."
— Pslam 1:6

"We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter. . . Recording the details of our lives is a stance against bombs with their mass ability to kill, against too much speed and efficiency. A writer must say yes to life, to all of life: the water glasses, the Kemp's half-and-half, the ketchup on the counter. It is not a writer's task to say, "It is dumb to live in a small town or to eat in a café when you can eat macrobiotic at home." Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life as they exist – the real truth of who we are: several pounds overweight, the gray, cold street outside, the Christmas tinsel in the showcase, the Jewish writer in the orange booth across from her blond friend who has black children. We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop these details from continuing."
— Natalie Goldberg (Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within)

"Not my will, but thine, be done."
— Jesus Christ, Son of God, from The Holy Bible

"All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words."
— Deng Ming- Dao

". . . Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
— Jesus Christ

"Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must be that way, for God's glory and kingdom. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world."
— Henry T. Blackaby (Experiencing the Spirit: The Power of Pentecost Every Day)

"Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel
of the wicked
or stands in the way of sinners
or sits in the seat of mockers."
— Psalms 1:1

"Everybody gets to play."
— John Wimber (Power Evangelism)

"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me."
— Psalm 139:1

"There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but the truth, and this created a problem, because the gods did not want this wisdom discovered right away. One of the gods suggested the top of the highest mountain, another the farthest star, a third spoke up for the dark side of the moon, and another for the bottom of the deepest ocean. Finally, they decide to place truth inside the human heart. In that way, we would search for it all over the universe, with the secret within us all the time. "
— Stephen Kendrick (Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes)

"He wrote: "A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way." Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true. "
— Stephen Kendrick (Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes)

"Look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."
— Jesus Christ, Son of God, from The Holy Bible

"I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand."
— C.S. Lewis (Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer)

"But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. "
— Jesus Christ

"The Holy Spirit doesn't need to equip you for what you're not going to do, so if you're in rebellion against Jesus and refusing His right to be Lord, He doesn't need to send the Holy Spirit to equip you for service. And, tragically, you miss out on the joy that He brings.

So let the Holy Spirit deal with anything that's keeping you from obeying Christ."
— Henry T. Blackaby

"Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,

the power and the glory,

for ever and ever.

Amen

"
— From god to Jesus done by: Becca

"One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction- he is a wise man."
— Krishna

"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I encountered these haunting words from Franz Kafka, I realized exactly why this light sermon about the search for God had struck such a nerve: "Everyday life is the greatest detective story ever written. Every second, without noticing, we pass by thousands of corpses and crimes. That's the routine of our lives." "
— Stephen Kendrick (Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes)

"God loves to pour out His Spirit with power on those who will dare to align radically their purposes with His."
— Steve Childers

"No matter what my sufferings may be, I will never complain and if I have to undergo any humiliation, I will seek refuge in the Sacred Heart of Jesus."
— Saint Alphonsa

"He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."
— Mark 16: 15-16

"God's Holy Spirit told me one day, He just dropped this holy wisdom into my spirit ...
"LIVE IN JOY. JOY IS A LOCATION.""
— Sharon Ellis (Communions With Christ)