The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not try to pretend there is no danger. Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. 

- N.D. Wilson

"Maybe you cannot thrive where you are untouchable… Soul growth only happens in the soil of vulnerability. Maybe it’s time to let yourself be touched." 

~ Ann Voskamp (www.aholyexperience.com)

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.” 

~ Augustine of Hippo

"Everyone can change tomorrow. Everyone solves problems tomorrow. But the only changes that matter are the ones I make today. Tomorrow is the easiest day I'll ever live. Today is the scary one, which is probably why I've spent so much time avoiding it."

~ Josh Riebock

"Your success is never final, your failure is never fatal, it is courage to continue that counts." 

~ Winston Churchill

"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."

~ Blaise Pascal

"Remember that a pail with a pinhole loses as much as the pail pushed right over. A whole life can be lost in minutes wasted… in the small moments missed."

~ Ann Voskamp

www.aholyexperience.com

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known." 

- A. A. Milne, Pooh's Little Instruction Book.

"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?" ~Erma Bombeck

"You can't reach for the sky if you're under the ceiling."
"But the ceiling keeps you out of the rain."

~Scott Bakula and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn Quantum Leap

"Never condemn each other. We condemn others only because we shun knowing ourselves. When we gaze at our own failings, we see such a swamp that nothing in another can equal it. That is why we turn away, and make much of the faults of others. Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgement." 

~ St. Seraphim of Sarov

"Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way."  

~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

"One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."

~ Moliere

‎"You see only with your eyes, so you are easy to fool." 

~ Jackie Chan in Karate Kid

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

~ Isaac Asimov

"The biggest problem with hell is not just the hypocrisy of the church, but the notion that God is both all glorious and yet an incredible failure at having won the world over. If the vast majority will die and go to hell, then does this not bring into question the foresight of God, the effectiveness of His effort to communicate redemptive love and the flawed design He used for human beings?  Adam in his falling was more powerful than Christ in His rising." 

~ Bob Greaves

         "Life isn't found in the destination you're headed to. It's found all around you in the journey you're on to get there. If you spend all your moments watching your feet, being careful not to step in the mud, not to trip over a root, not to stub your toe on a rock... if all you do is make sure you're walking right, then you are completely missing the scenery all around you that is called LIFE!
         "You can arrive at your destination filled with pride that you got there in pristine condition, or you can arrive a little muddy and bruised but filled with the life you experienced along the way!" 

~ Robert Cook

When you find a redemptive explanation for your suffering, you move from victim to wounded healer.

~ Donald Miller

‎"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible." 

~ Thomas Kempis

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

~ Unknown