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“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.”
― Rick Joyner

“I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.”
― Keith Green

“I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.”
― Keith Green

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right.”
― Billy Graham

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
― St. Augustine

“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
― Saint Augustine

“In our day, the Holy Spirit is emphasizing the anointing that was upon Mary of Bethany, which is the anointing to "waste" our lives on one thing: extravagant devotion to Jesus Christ. It is the anointing to linger long with an engaged spirit in the presence of the Lord. This is impossible to do with religious self-determination and the power of the flesh. We can't will ourselves to be more resolute and say, 'I will, I will, I will.' The abandonment flows out of a lovesick heart.”
― Mike Bickle

“Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“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

“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV)”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.”
― William P. Young, The Shack

“Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.”
― Francine Rivers

“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”
― St. Teresa of Avila

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
― John Bunyan

“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world if he lost his soul?”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”
― Oswald Chambers

“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
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― brother lawrence