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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“Could it be that God intends for us to have the same kind of audacious faith-the kind of faith that dares to believe God for the impossible-as a normal way of life?”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“When you have a dream in your heart, but no earthly idea how to make it happen, keeping your faith intact is a full-time job.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“I'm determined to take ground and win big for the kingdom of God. I'm unapologetic about my mission to change the world for the glory of Jesus. I want to be a Joshua in my generation.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“I want you to live in the middle of a move of God.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“God gives people the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he's designed for them.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“Usually, a Page 23 vision will begin when you see God dropping hints, not when you see him shooting stars in your direction. And your vision will probably flow from something you're already doing-relationships you've already established, priorities you're already passionate about.

The kind of vision that makes you bold enough to ask God for the impossible can come from many sources. It can materialize in a million ways. And it will mature over time, not in the blink of an eye.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“If you're going to ask God to do something impossible in your life, you've got to have some clarity about what you're asking for.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“If the dream in your heart isn't biblically based, focused on Jesus, affirmed by the key people in your life, and tethered to your passions, gifts, and life experiences, chances are, you're way off prompt.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“Audacious vision never cowers in the darkness.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“Seize God's vision. Activate your faith. Make your move.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“Seizing God's vision means deciding that you will not spend another day surviving your work environment, family dynamic, or dysfunctional situation.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“You have a personal birthright to believe in a God-given mission for your life.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“Audacity is not an activity. Audacity is an approach.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“God is able to stir up your spirit, pour out his presence, and reveal his glory in your family, business or community.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“There's no such thing as a part-time Christian, and there's no such thing as part-time ministry.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“God performs the most impressive feats through the most unimpressive people.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“When you give all you've got for the cause of the One who gave it all to you in the first place, the effects of your investment will literally reach the heavens.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“If you'll do the believing, he'll do the achieving.”
― Steven Furtick, Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible

“The man standing closest to her was eating an ice cream cone; she had always found it a little irresponsible, the eating of ice cream cones by grown-up American men, especially the eating of ice cream cones by grown-up American men in public.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Before, she would have said, "I know," that peculiar American expression that professed agreement rather than knowledge”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“She was struck by how mostly slim white people got off at the stops in Manhattan and, as the train went further into Brooklyn, the people left were mostly black and fat. She had not thought of them as "fat," though. She had thought of them as "big," because one of the first things her friend Ginika told her was that "fat" in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgement like "stupid" or "bastard," and not a mere description like "short" or "tall." So she had banished "fat" from her vocabulary.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“She was after all the kind of woman who would make a man easily uproot his life, the kind who, because she did not expect or ask for certainty, made a certain kind of sureness become possible.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“When Ifemelu met Obinze, she told Aunty Uju that she had met the love of her life, and Aunty Uju told her to let him kiss and touch but not to let him put it inside”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“A quickening inside her, a dawning. She realized, quite suddenly, that she wanted to breathe the same air as Obinze.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“It seemed so natural, to talk to him about the odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah