"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." 

— C.S. Lewis

‎"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." 

~ Anna Quindlen

 "Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" 

~ Corrie ten Boom

"If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life!" 

~Barbara Johnson

 “The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.” 

~ Chinese Proverb

"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know." 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter."

~ Tim Kizziar

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. 

~ Albert Einstein

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

~ Tom Bodett

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you... you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."

~ Bob Marley

“You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”

~ Henri Nouwen

“As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their 'right' place.”

~ Henri Nouwen

"We are spiritual beings having a physical experience and not physical beings having a spiritual experience. "

~ Pierre Theilard de Chardin

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”

~ Muhammad Ali

There is a way in which a fish swimming around in a fishbowl knows nothing at all about water. Because water is so much a part of the fish's life. If you want the fish to really understand water, you have to take the fish out of the fishbowl and say, "Look, that's water."

~ Unknown

"Love is the only reality."

(family motto heard on "The Bachelorette" on ABC - 7/12/10)

Laugh a lot, 
And when you’re older,
All your wrinkles
Will be in the right place.

(seen on someone's Facebook photo)

‎'Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.'

~ Joshua Marine

"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies." 

~ Thomas Jefferson

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”

~ Harold Kushner