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#1

“Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

#2

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

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#3

“God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

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#4

“We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

tags: acceptance, god, holiness, womanhood, women

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#5

“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, These Strange Ashes

131 likes

#6

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: books

1765 likes

#7

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

tags: simplicity

1514 likes

#8

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: friendship

1149 likes

#9

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
― Henry David Thoreau

797 likes

#10

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

10092 likes

#11

“There is truth in wine and children”
― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus

tags: aphorism

724 likes

#12

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
― Plato

487 likes

#13

“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

24 likes

#14

“It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.”
― Shane Claiborne

37 likes

#15

“Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”
― Shane Claiborne

tags: activism, inspiration

67 likes

#16

“The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.”
― Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

67 likes

#17

“Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.”
― Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

68 likes

#18

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

26977 likes

#19

“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

tags: friendship

88098 likes

#20

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27864 likes

#21

“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

tags: christianity, god, religion

11241 likes

#22

“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

tags: god

5284 likes

#23

“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

1333 likes

#24

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

8611 likes

#25

“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”
― Anne Lamott

792 likes

#26

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

1993 likes

#27

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9004 likes

#28

“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

tags: bible, christianity

1158 likes

#29

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

1688 likes

#30

“Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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