"My greatest skill in life has been to want but little"
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

"Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all."
— Mark Twain

"The irony is that while God doesn’t need
us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the
time.
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— Francis Chan

"People aren't confused bythe Gospel. They're confused by us. Jesus is the only way to God, but we are not the only way to Jesus. This world doesn't need my tie, my hoodie, my denomination or my interpretation of the Bible. They just need Jesus. We can be passionate about what we believe, but we can't strap ourselves to the Godspel, because we are slowing it down. Jesus is going to save the world, but maybe the best thing we can do is just get out of the way. "
— Casting Crowns

"There's never enough of the stuff you can't get enough of."
— Patrick H.T. Doyle

"My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy, and who could blame her with a husband like that . . . She says this is really the only reason people are ever mean--they have something hurting inside of them, a claw of unhappiness scratching at their hearts, and it hurts them so much that sometimes they have to push it right out of their mouths to scratch someone else, just to give themselves a rest, a moment of relief."
— Laura Moriarty