E.G. Bella > E.G.'s Quotes

“It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I've always admired a person who can admit to not knowing something. Most people smile and nod and pretend they know everything for fear of being caught out. But those people only ensure their ignorance.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

“You can't judge an entire group of people by the actions of a few.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

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

“The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe. ———”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“If we can’t take Christ to them by preaching, we’ll take Christ to them by living.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“First, earn the right to get their attention; then show them Jesus – perhaps not with words but always with action.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?”
― Brother Andrew, The Narrow Road: Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
― Shannon Hale

“This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow”
― Captain Jack Sparrow-Pirates of the caribbean: curse of the black pearl

“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

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“And all was not perfect, but it was very good.”
― E.G. Bella, The Toymaker's Doll: An Allegorical Short Story

“We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.”
― Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman

“Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.”
― Oswald Chambers

“[God] is present in the everyday material circumstances of human life, so “with us” even in our suffering and confusion that nothing can separate us from him.”
― Daniel Schwabauer, The God of Story: Discovering the Narrative of Scripture Through the Language of Storytelling

“A well-told story bypasses our intellectual firewalls and changes us through our emotions.”
― Daniel Schwabauer, The God of Story: Discovering the Narrative of Scripture Through the Language of Storytelling

“Great storytellers show us how the tiniest of sins can have devastating effects on others.”
― Daniel Schwabauer, The God of Story: Discovering the Narrative of Scripture Through the Language of Storytelling

“Stories tell us that life is meaningful, and at their best they show us how to go about finding that meaning for ourselves.”
― Daniel Schwabauer, The God of Story: Discovering the Narrative of Scripture Through the Language of Storytelling

“That is one of the great mistakes people make: assuming that someone who does menial work does not like thinking. Physical labor is great for the mind, as it leaves all kinds of time to consider the world. Other work, like accounting or scribing, demands little of the body—but siphons energy from the mind.

If you wish to become a storyteller, here is a hint: sell your labor, but not your mind. Give me ten hours a day scrubbing a deck, and oh the stories I could imagine. Give me ten hours adding sums, and all you’ll have me imagining at the end is a warm bed and a thought-free evening.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Heroism is often the seemingly spontaneous result of a lifetime of preparation.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“In short, Tress was a normal teenage girl. She knew this because the other girls often mentioned how they weren’t like “everyone else,” and after a while Tress figured that the group “everyone else” must include only her. The other girls were obviously right, as they all knew how to be unique—they were so good at it, in fact, that they did it together.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Tress didn’t understand that it is quite possible to be so bad at something it seems implausible. In these cases, it stands to reason that such a person is in fact quite competent—because it takes true competence to feign such spectacular incompetence. It’s called the transitive property of ineptitude, and is the explanation for anything you’ve seen me do wrong ever.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea