Phil > Phil's Quotes

“Intentions are ambitious liars.”
― Jon Acuff, Start.: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, and Do Work That Matters

“those who happen to have the right talents-should be economists and statesmen, and that all economists and statesmen should be Christians, and that their whole efforts in politics and economics should be directed 'Do as you would be done by' into action. If that happened and if we others were really ready to take it, then we should find the Christian solution for our own social problems pretty quickly.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“whenever we feel there is something odd in Christian theology, we shall generally find that there is something odd in the truth.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“God has not given us little angels to be handled carefully lest they get corrupted. They’re already sinners who need to be led to salvation and faith in Christ.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., Being a Dad Who Leads

“I must be prepared for the moral fall of any man in any position at any moment; especially for my fall from my position at this moment.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Zig calls “the wheel of life.” The wheel has spokes that represent each area of our lives, and for our lives to be successful as a whole we must address each area. The spokes of goal setting are 1. Career 2. Financial 3. Spiritual 4. Physical 5. Intellectual 6. Family 7. Social”
― Anonymous

“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

“F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.”
― Zig Ziglar

“The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His love.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“God's grace frees you from having to deny your weaknesses.”
― Paul David Tripp, Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

“In a truly free society, individuals are granted responsibility for themselves. Freedom necessitates that we learn how to provide for ourselves, contributing value in whatever form, to generate personal income. We then decide how we wish to spend or save earned income; freedom is the reward for fulfilling personal responsibilities.”
― Candace Owens, Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation