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“In short, if you are what you love, and love is a habit, then discipleship is a rehabilitation of your loves.”
― Smith, James K. A.

“If we are to be transformed, the body must be transformed, and that is not accomplished by talking at it.”
― Dallas Willard

“See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.”
― Maxwell, John

“Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer, until the story becomes at once more narrow and larger, more and more precise, more and more reverberating.”
― James Baldwin

“A church that abandoned God's moral revelation had nothing to offer a lost culture.”
― Dennis McCallum, The Death of Truth: What's Wrong With Multiculturalism, the Rejection of Reason and the New Postmodern Diversity

“It is better to lose your life than to waste it.”
― John Piper

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. 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

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“God has his ways to loosen your roots.”
― John Piper, A Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named

“We're writers, the people hired for their imaginations.”
― Bruce Holland Rogers

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.”
― John Piper

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye. ”
― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

“Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

“Life as usual must go. It will be replaced by something far better.”
― Dallas Willard

“My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“Avarice is inflamed by gain, not diminished by it.”
― St. Ambrose

“There is, after all, such a thing as evil. The instinct not to give it its proper name is one of the tactics that evil itself employs in order to smuggle in its deadly purposes under the noses of those who, not themselves in the grip of evil, are nevertheless unwilling to confront it for fear of looking arrogant, of causing too much of a fuss.”
― N.T. Wright