Libby Powell > Libby's Quotes

“Young people, you must pray, for your passions are strong, but your wisdom is little.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Once saved, always saved but also, once saved, forever following.”
― J.D. Greear

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“D'ye know what Calvary was? What? What? What? It was damnation; and he took it lovingly.”
― John Duncan (theologian)

“Goodbye…? Oh no, please. Can't we go back to page one and start all over again?”
― Winnie-the-Pooh

“What motivated me [to write] was that my disgrace was not the end of the story—or even the main part of the story. The real story was that Christ had reached down to me, even in my disgrace and shame, and revealed Himself as the One who forgives and makes new. Born Again is the story of a broken man transformed by the love and power of Jesus Christ—who continues to transform me every passing day.”
― Charles W. Colson

“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

“Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.”
― John Piper

“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

“From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“you have found your style at last. You wrote with no thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it,”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women