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“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

“Many Christians assume that we can just experience God in a personal relationship apart from doctrine, but that’s impossible. You cannot experience God without knowing who he is, what he has done, and who you are in relation to him. Even our most basic Christian experiences and commitments are theological. “I just love Jesus,” some say. But who is Jesus? And why do you love him?”
― Michael S. Horton, Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples

“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”
― Jessica N. Turner, The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You

“We need Christ—the real Christ. A Christ born of empty speculation or created to squeeze into the philosopher’s pattern simply won’t do. A recycled Christ, a Christ of compromise, can redeem no one. A Christ watered down, stripped of power, debased of glory, reduced to a symbol, or made impotent by scholarly surgery is not Christ but Antichrist.”
― R.C. Sproul, Who Is Jesus?

“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.” —Vincent Van Gogh”
― Laurie A. Helgoe, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength

“Why?” he echoed. “I should think it rather obvious.”
― Janette Oke, When Calls the Heart

“And frankly, Elizabeth,” he said through that controlled smile, “I’ve never enjoyed anything more.”
― Janette Oke, When Calls the Heart

“Your understanding of how the Bible impacts your work can mean the difference between spending your workdays counting down the minutes until quitting time or engaging your career with excitement, purpose, and a profound sense of meaning.”
― Bryan J. Dik, Redeeming Work: A Guide to Discovering God's Calling for Your Career

“When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.”
― Kathleen Kelly

“You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you. You cannot waste the next hour; it is kept for you.”
― Arnold Bennett, How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

“We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. It is the realisation of this profound and neglected truth (which, by the way, I have not discovered) that has led me to the minute practical examination of daily time-expenditure.”
― Arnold Bennett, How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

“Tens of thousands of redeemed ones are not regenerated yet, but regenerated they must be; and this is our comfort when we go to them with the quickening Word of God”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: A New Edition of the Classic Devotional Based on The Holy Bible, English Standard Version

“They are Christ’s property, and yet perhaps they are lovers of selfish pleasures and haters of holiness; but if Jesus Christ purchased them, He will have them.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening: A New Edition of the Classic Devotional Based on The Holy Bible, English Standard Version

“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“You are not your body and hair-style, but your capacity for choosing well. If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.1.39b–40a”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living