top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today's comforts for tomorrow's opportunities."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is no rank in sacrifice."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Just as God expressed his great love by giving his son to die for our redemption, so we will express our love for God by giving to others."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Be prepared to die to self and to give up everything for the Gospel's sake, even to give up the most precious thing you have, your life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Your willingness to sacrifice who you are today for who you need to be in the future is a necessary decision on the success journey."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him."
Worship
"Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy."
Ambition
"A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human."
Understanding
"Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority spending time with other believers is."
Fellowship
"It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality or it would not be reasonable."
Philosophy
"When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul."
Community
"The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life."
Reflection
"When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God."
Spiritual
"I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll."
Storytelling
"Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be."
Relationship
bottom of page