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“There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.”
― Timothy Keller

“...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen:

There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught to fly.”
― Patrick Overton, The Leaning Tree

“The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.”
― Bethenny Frankel, A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life

“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.”
― David Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.”
― David Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.”
― David Allen, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures.”
― Robert McGee, The Search for Significance - Workbook: Build Your Self-Worth on God's Truth

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

“When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith