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This is a page with thoughts of others that have touched me, made me think, or agree with my own.

"I find [it] easier to comprehend in my own mind, than to convey to yours."
(Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities)

"I say I wanna give You glory Lord and I do, but everything I could ever find to offer comes from You. If my darkness can praise Your light, You give me breath and I'll give my life to sing Your praise."
(Rich Mullins, Damascus Road)

"Geniuses and prophets usually do not excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not."
(J.A. Schumpeter)

"I am only a wick.... It is only when the wick is soaked in oil that it can burn.... If people begin to talk about the wick, there is generally something wrong with the burning."
(D. H. Dolman)

"I guess I shouldn't think it odd [that] until we see the face of God the yearning deep within us tells us there's more to come. So when we taste of the divine it leaves us hungry every time for one more taste of what awaits when heaven's gates are reached."
(Carolyn Arends, Reaching)

"God's anointing does not prove God's approval."
(Richard Crisco)

"That's a lovely idea.... Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with...making it stand in other people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself."
(Anne Shirley, Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery)

"...authority is given to serve, not to set you apart."
(John Bevere, The Bait of Satan)

"'Corrie,' he began gently, 'when you and I go to Amsterdam -- when do I give you your ticket?'
'Why, just before we get on the train.'
'Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're goin to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes,... you will look into your heart and find the strength you need -- just in time.'"
(Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place)

"When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride. Forbid it Lord, that I should boast, save in the death of Christ my Lord. All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His blood. See from His head, His hands, His feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down. Did e're such love and sorrow meet or thorns compose so rich a crown? Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were an offering far too small. Love so amazing, so divine demands my soul, my life, my all."
(Isaac Watts, When I Survey)

"He who kneels most, stands best."
(D. L. Moody)

"My friends ain't the way I wish they were. They are just the way they are. I will be my brother's keeper, not the one who judges him. I won't despise him for his weakness, I won't regard him for his strength."
(Rich Mullins, Brother's Keeper)

"If everyone would quit telling us we shouldn't be racist, maybe we would forget that racism is supposed to be a problem, and love each other the way we were intended to."
(Me)

"You don't have to advertise a fire."
(Leonard Ravenhill)

"...though the tongue has no bones, it can sometimes break millions of them."
(F.L. Lucas)

"This is important. I got it figured that I could be a smart girl and a smooth girl if I wasn't scared of so many things--if I didn't spend so much time wondering why I'm not. I could be as smooth as Jane Rady if I stopped thinking about myself."
(Angie Morrow, Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly)

"Could we tell them, 'Jesus is like me. If you've seen me then you've seen Him'? Or would we say, 'Please! No! He's altogether different from what you see'?"
(Dr. Michael L. Brown, Whatever Happened to the Power of God)

"It always amazed me, how someone could come to the edge of the world, drop a stone down the side, and turn and return to the very same life."
(Charlie Peacock, William & Maggie)

"When it comes time to die, make sure that's all you have to do."
(Jim Elliot)

"Many Christians today don't ask God for anything because it will test a faith they don't have!"
(David Wilkerson, Revival On Broadway!)

"In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is to lose himself in a great cause."
(Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery)

"They say that when You died, You were barely thirty-three....I know You died to make men holy, but You live to set them free. You never once looked back. You hung on the cross and gave Your life for me. You didn't take up a rod to rule; You took up a towel and washed my feet. And You are beautiful; You're beautiful to me. If I could be a hero, I'd wanna be a hero just like You."
(David Mullen, Hero)

"One of [Evan Roberts'] severest trials during the revival was his being the object of men's worship. A friend of his once told me of finding him lying on the floor crying to the Lord to bring this to naught so that all the glory should go to God alone."
(I.V. Neprash)

"Do you suppose it's wrong for us to think so much about our clothes? Marilla says it is very sinful. But it is such an interesting subject, isn't it?"
(Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery)

When asked how he drew the crowds: "I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn"
(John Wesley)

"I'm so afraid I'll amount to nothing, because I cannot love."
(Six Pence None the Richer, Love, Salvation, the Fear of Death)

"Many years later I happened to learn about planned parenthood and birth control to guard against unwanted children. I must say [Johannes] had not been exactly planned for that very moment, and as far as being wanted is concerned, I would have gladly said many times, 'Oh, won't you be so kind as to wait for just six months....' But thousands of years ago God assured us--it's in the Book: 'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways My ways.' So if there is any planning to be done, why don't we let Him do it? Looking back now, I know that He chose the only right moment for Johannes' arrival."
(Maria Augusta Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers)

"Revival comes when you seek God and repent, not when you seek the manifesting and hope God is there somewhere."
(Pastor Todd Nelson)

"If you make me laugh, well I know I can make you like me, 'cause when I laugh I can be a lot of fun. But when we can't do that, well I know that it is frightening. What I don't know is why we cant hold on.... We must be aweful small, and not as strong as we think we are."
(Rich Mullins, We Are Not As Strong As We Think We Are)

"Nobody is anybody in the kingdom of God."
(Dr. Michael L. Brown)

"I was just trying to write out some of my thoughts..., but I couldn't get them to please me. They seem so stiff and foolish directly they're written down on white paper with black ink. Fancies are like shadows... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things."
(Anne Shirley, Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Mongomery)

"By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has got a fever."
(Watchman Nee)

"The longer I talked the tireder my brain was getting. I finally said, 'You know George, thinking this hard on something will make your brain hurt.' I looked over at George, he was rubbin' his forehead. He said, 'I know man, I had to stop thinking about five minutes ago.'"
(Mark Lowry)

"Preach always. If necessary use words."
(St. Francis of Assissi)

"Sometimes a voice whispers in the night about the river of souls running through my life. Lives in the balance--see 'em sinking down. Will I reach out or watch them drown?"
(Randy Stonehill, Sleeping)

"Faith tolerates a moderate love of ones fellow man no more than it tolerates a moderate love between God and man."
(John McKenzie)

"...if the desire is long absent, it may itself be desired, and that new desiring becomes a new instance of the original desire, though the subject may not at once recognize the fact and thus cries out for his lost youth of soul at the very moment in which he is being rejuvenated.... 'Oh to feel as I did then!' we cry; not noticing that even while we say the words the very feeling whose loss we lament is rising again in all of its old bitter-sweetness."
(C.S. Lewis, Afterword to The Pilgrim's Regress)

"Every American is as good as his brains and character and manners, and no better."
(Geoffrey Parsons, The Land of Fair Play)

"It would have been easy for God to show us the plan for this period, as He had it all fixed up.... But then again we would not have learned that most valuable lesson, so He left us in the dark and gave us only one thing at a time."
(Maria Augusta Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers)

"If you seek Him because you love Him, and not for your own agenda's sake to be successful or noticed, you will not go wrong."
(John Arnott, When It All Began, article in Spread the Fire Magazine)

"There is a false sense of self-protection in harboring an offense. It keeps you from seeing your own character flaws, because the blame is deferred to another."
(John Bevere, The Bait of Satan)

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not seek to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."
(Unknown)

"Don't let me become the man that I say that I despise."
(David Mullen, Hang My Head and Cry)

"...if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one."
(C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy)

"The more I enter in, I find. The more I find, I seek."
(Benny Hester, The More I Enter In)

"I've heard every utterance and I can't comprehend just why I can't decide; I can't make the choice. Is it Your word that I'm in love with, or the sound of Your voice?."
(The Waiting, Speak)

"I did not know my savage thirst until You led me to Your well. I did not know I lived in chains until You freed me."
(Randy Stonehill, Fire)

"I can't see how you're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led."
(Rich Mullins, Hard To Get)