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“God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Through Gates of Splendor

“Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tolkien Reader

“We are all glamorous, some more so than others.”
― Iain Cameron Williams, The Empirical Observations of Algernon

“Jesus does not want to be the only perfect human being at the expense of humankind. He does not want, as the only guiltless one, to ignore a humanity that is being destroyed by its guilt; he does not want some kind of human ideal to triumph over the ruins of a wrecked humanity.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

“If God worked through one woman to bring redemption, how is it that anyone can argue that God does not go on working through other women as well?”
― Joan D. Chittister, The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series

“But you must remember that, while the Bible was written for us, it wasn’t written to us.”
― Michael S. Heiser, The Bible Unfiltered: Approaching Scripture on Its Own Terms

“we should not be overly shocked and disillusioned when our leaders are revealed as having clay feet. Nor should we be blasé and shrug. If we are to trust God as our only true hope for social order and peace, we must avoid either adulatory naïveté or bitter cynicism about human leaders.”
― Timothy J. Keller, God's Wisdom for Navigating Life: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs

“Where there's life there's hope.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”
― Brennan Manning