Nick

“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

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

“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

“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