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“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”
― John Piper

“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

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“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

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

“Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.”
― John Piper

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

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

“The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”
― John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?”
― John Piper

“The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.
It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for
heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not
the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we
drink in every night.”
― John Piper, A Hunger for God

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Max Lucado

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

“All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“You can call me what you like, but I will be taking your cake.
-L (from Death Note)”
― Tsugumi Ohba

“Misa: I can't imagine a world without Light!

L: Yes,that would be dark.”
― Tsugumi Ohba

“They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“Okay… This looks bad.

You cowboy around with the Avengers some. Guys got, what, armor. Magic. Super-powers. Super-strength. Shrink-dust. Grow-rays. Magic. Healing factors. I’m an orphan raised by carnies fighting with a stick and a string from the Paleolithic era.
So when I say this looks “bad”?

I promise you it feels worse.”
― Matt Fraction, Hawkeye #1

“Not hardly.” Reese lowered his pistol, letting the dread work through him in a tremble. “That was
just a battle cry.”
― Willowy Whisper, This Hostile Land

“The silence was worse than the gunshots. The wait worse than the confusion. The forebode worse
than any danger.”
― Willowy Whisper, This Hostile Land

“I cannot forget the words of my friend, Stoyan..."I took great joy that I was suffering in my country so that you could be free to witness in your country." And then he raised his voice to say: "Don't you ever give up in freedom what we would never give up in persecution - and that is our witness to the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ!”
― Nik Ripken The Insanity of God

“Serving God is not a matter of location, but a matter of obedience.”
― Nik Ripken, The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected

“Your fear is the greatest tool you will ever give to Satan. Overcoming your fear is your greatest tool against Satan.”
― Nik Ripken, The Insanity of Obedience: Walking with Jesus in Tough Places

“But the deacon said that the Holy Spirit told him, 'You don't have to come back. You just have to go.' So he did. . . . Long after I heard that story, I kept thinking about God's final instruction to the deacon: 'You just have do go.' You don't have to come back. You just have to go. As it turns out, he did come back. Even so, the instruction is so clear. You just have to go. You just have to go. Even if there is no clarity about your return, you just have to go.”
― Nik Ripken, The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected

“[...] if Jesus is not the answer to the human condition, there is no answer.”
― Nik Ripken, The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected

“Jesus is very much alive and well in the twenty-first century. Jesus is revealed in the lives and words and resurrection faith of the believers in persecution. These believers don't just live for Jesus, they live with Jesus every day.”
― Nik Ripken The Insanity of God