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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #3
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #5
    John Bunyan
    “In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
    John Bunyan

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #9
    C.S. Lewis
    “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

  • #11
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

  • #12
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

  • #13
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
    Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

  • #14
    Francis Chan
    “The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”
    Francis Chan

  • #16
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

  • #17
    C.S. Lewis
    “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

  • #18
    A.W. Tozer
    “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.”
    A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

  • #19
    Corrie ten Boom
    “In darkness God's truth shines most clear.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

  • #20
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.”
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

  • #21
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

  • #23
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #24
    Frederick Buechner
    “Go where your best prayers take you.”
    Frederick Buechner

  • #25
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
    Corrie Ten Boom

  • #26
    Andrew Murray
    “Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.”
    Andrew Murray

  • #27
    C.S. Lewis
    “When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #28
    John Bunyan
    “Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
    John Bunyan

  • #29
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    Mark Twain

  • #31
    Robert Frost
    “If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
    Robert Frost

  • #32
    Robert Frost
    “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”
    Robert Frost



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