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“Which thread shall I choose, Lord? There are so many. They hang before my eyes like strands of silk in a doorway. Each promising that it will weave the finest tapestry of my life. But it is not my tapestry. It is not my life. So again I ask, which thread do I choose? Which strand will pass through the very eye of the needle?”
― Reinhard Bonnke, Living a Life of Fire: An Autobiography

“The Christian life is not easy. No responsible person ever said it was. It is a battle all the way. But it is a battle that will be won. And when it is won, we who have triumphed will cast our crowns at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ, who worked in us to accomplish victory, and we will praise Him forever.”
― James Boice

“Forth, and fear no darkness!”
― JRR Tolkien

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“Dear King, if there be anything that stands between You and me, if there be anything that shrouds Your glory, if there be anything that will weaken my sword in battle, purge it, slay it, utterly destroy it!”
― Eric Ludy

“Sometimes we would prefer to die for Jesus than to live for Him.”
― Edward T. Welch, When People Are Big and God Is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man

“It might not seem good, and it might not feel good. But the seeming and the feeling are not definitive. “Think of the crucifixion of Christ- was that good?” I asked Mary.

“No.” She immediately replied. Then she caught herself and continued, “Well… yes.”

I watched the light go on in her mind. Mary knew God had sent Christ to suffer and atone for our sins. He was tortured. He was mocked. He bled. Had Mary and I been present at his crucifixion, we would have stood beneath the cross and asked, “Why? Why is God letting him suffer like this?” But the beautiful truth is that God’s ways are higher than ours. Our God transformed the brutal, horrifying death of his innocent Son into the best good his people could ever experience.”
― Dan Wickert, Counseling the Hard Cases: True Stories Illustrating the Sufficiency of God’s Resources in Scripture

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“-A children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story.”
― C. S. Lewis

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“What I have to say is of no importance. Let me tell you what the Son of God had to say.”
― Corrie ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord

“Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such a great meaning.”
― Corrie ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord

“He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“However, I reasoned, perhaps she had not experienced miracles before.”
― Corrie ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord

“There are some, like me, who are called to live a single life," I said softly. "For them it is always easy for they are, by their nature, content. Others, like Ellen, are called to prepare for marriage which may come in later life. They, too, are blessed, for God is using the in-between years to teach them that marriage is not the answer to unhappiness. Happiness is found only in a balanced relationship with the Lord Jesus.”
― Corrie ten Boom, Tramp For The Lord

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― Christopher Markus

“Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you.”
― George Mueller

“Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.”
― C. S. Lewis

“If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis

“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

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

“God alone -in all of His beauty and grace- can promise us joy forever.”
― Dan Wickert, Counseling the Hard Cases: True Stories Illustrating the Sufficiency of God’s Resources in Scripture

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Not to obey God implies that we are wiser than him, and that we know better how to run our lives than he does.”
― Brother Yun, The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun by Yun, Brother, Hattaway, Paul(September 1, 2008) Audio CD

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus