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“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Were we created for something much greater than this?”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“He responded, “A true brother comes to be with you in your time of need.” Then he looked me in the eye and said, “David, you are a true brother. Thank you for coming to be with us.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Michael Frost, Surprise the World: The Five Habits of Highly Missional People

“The founding father of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, was noted as saying, “When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.”
― Michael Frost, Surprise the World: The Five Habits of Highly Missional People

“As Alan Hirsch and Lance Ford say in their book Right Here, Right Now: Sharing meals together on a regular basis is one of the most sacred practices we can engage in as believers. Missional hospitality is a tremendous opportunity to extend the kingdom of God. We can literally eat our way into the kingdom of God! If every Christian household regularly invited a stranger or a poor person into their home for a meal once a week, we would literally change the world by eating![13]”
― Michael Frost, Surprise the World: The Five Habits of Highly Missional People

“Though many Christians in the Western world have imagined that the aim or goal of being a Christian is simply “to go to heaven when you die,” the New Testament holds out something much richer and more interesting.”
― N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

“no generation can bequeath to its successors what it has not got.’3”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

“I couldn’t believe that nine-hundred and ninety-nine religions were completely false and the remaining one true. In reality, Christianity is primarily the fulfilment of the Jewish religion, but also the fulfilment of what was vaguely hinted in all the religions at their best. What”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

“If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful. The”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

“More probably, foolish preachers, by always telling you how much Christianity will help you and how good it is for society, have actually led you to forget that Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

“We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

“We are comfortable when we should be concerned. We are passive when we should be active. We are satisfied when we should be dissatisfied.”
― Paul David Tripp, What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage

“Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God’s protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.”
― Paul David Tripp, What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi