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    William Nicholson
    “I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #3
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #4
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #8
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #9
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
    C.S. Lewis
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  • #12
    C.S. Lewis
    “God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #13
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #14
    Scott Adams
    “I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”
    Scott Adams

  • #15
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “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

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #18
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #19
    Francis Chan
    “But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.”
    francis chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

  • #20
    Francis Chan
    “The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”
    Francis Chan

  • #21
    Ronald Reagan
    “Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
    Ronald Reagan

  • #22
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
    L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #23
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
    Reinhold Niebuhr

  • #24
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

    Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

    Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.

    No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.”
    Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History

  • #25
    Mother Teresa
    “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #26
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.”
    C. H. Spurgeon

  • #27
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.”
    Charles Spurgeon

  • #28
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
    Charles Spurgeon

  • #29
    Timothy J. Keller
    “The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”
    Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

  • #30
    Timothy J. Keller
    “Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.”
    Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God



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