Quotes

I enjoy collecting quotes. Here are a few of my favorite.

 

• “If we but turn to God, that in itself is a gift from God.”
  -St. Augustine
•  Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers any more. Only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I’ve been given the choice; as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.” -C.S. Lewis
•  From ancient times things not yet done, Our God ordains them, every one.”  -John Piper
•  When Jesus calls a man. he bids him come and die.”  -Dietrich Bonheoffer
•  This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden, under the shadow of these vines. But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out over the wide lands, you know very well what I would see–brigands on the high roads, pirates on the seas; in the amphitheaters men murdered to please applauding crowds; under all roofs misery and selfishness. It is really a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. Yet in the midst of it I have found a quiet and holy people. They have discovered a joy which is a thousand times better than any pleasures of this sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are the Christians — and I am one of them.”    -St. Cyprian, c. 258, a letter
•  “Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered.” -John Piper
• “I’m Hub McCann. I’ve fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I’ve seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I’ve won and lost a dozen fortunes, killed many men and loved only one woman with a passion a flea like you could never begin to understand. That’s who I am. Now, go home, boy! ”
  -Hub McCann, Second Hand Lion
•  “All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.” -Blaise Pascal
•  ”Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.” -Jim Elliot
•  “They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true. What they don’t tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”
  -Ed Bloom, Big Fish
•  “The end of all being, is the glory of God.” -Paris Reidhead