Quotes to Ponder and Inspire

I have dedicated this page to various quotes I run across while reading, surfing the internet, or someone mentions to me. Enjoy these quotes, think about them, and I hope they inspire you.

“Nothing comes to me that hasn’t first gone through the Lord.” 

Max Lucado, God Will Carry You Through

“I don’t have an easy solution or a magic wand. I have found something—Someone—far better. God himself.”

Max Lucado, God Will Carry You Through

“God never twiddles his thumbs. He never stops. He takes no vacations. He rested on the seventh day of creation but got back to work on the eighth and hasn’t stopped since. Just because you are idle, don’t assume God is.”

Max Lucado, God Will Carry You Through

“And that is precisely what Christianity is about. This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there is a rumour going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.”

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“It is not the strength of your faith, but the object of your faith that saves you.”

Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: An Open Forum Podcast

“When you’re a teacher, you talk when you teach. You don’t talk during the test. If you teach well enough, you really don’t have to worry when students are taking the test–they are prepared and can take care of themselves.”

Tony Dungy, The Mentor Leader

“You believe comforting lies, while knowing full well the painful truth that makes those lies necessary.”

A Monster Calls

“You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey’s end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.”

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

“The world is not in your books and maps. It’s out there.”

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

“I think some deranged part of me likes thinking I am the only one with real problems. Like that makes me special.”

The Edge of Seventeen (2016 Movie)

“You know, ever since we were little, I would get this feeling, like, like I am floating outside of my body, looking down on myself. And I hate what I see. How I am acting, how I sound, and I don’t know how to change it. And I am so scared that, that feeling is never going to go away.”

The Edge of Seventeen (2016 Movie)

“Faith doesn’t mean trusting God to stop the storm, but trusting Him to strengthen us as we walk through the storm.” ― Adam Cappa”If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Trials are inevitable. When you try to escape you stay weak & fall to temptation. When you endure you grow strong.”

Lecrae

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

John Wooden

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