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“Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.”
― John Ortberg

“Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.”
― Mary Schmich

“The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose of Christmas

“I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.”
― A.W. Tozer

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle

“Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”
― John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

“God must first accomplish something in you before he can accomplish something through you.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“there are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. You choose.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“I used to pray, “I’m gonna live for God!” Now I pray, “God, come live through me.” I used to pray, “I’m gonna work for God!” Now I pray, “God, come do your work through me.” I used to pray, “I’m gonna serve God!” Now I pray, “God, please come and serve through”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
― T.S. Eliot

“Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.”
― Roger Crawford

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
― Molière

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain

“when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus”
― corrie ten boom

“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”
― John Calvin

“There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
― Oswald Chambers

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
― Roald Dahl

“People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“I guess love's kind of like a marshmallow in a microwave on high. After it explodes it's still a marshmallow. but, you know, now it's a complicated marshmallow.”
― Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

“For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.”
― Lady Gaga

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.”
― Tom Robbins

“I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength”
― Adam Young

“The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me.
-Streetwalking with Jesus”
― John Green

“In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.”
― Smith Wigglesworth