Change

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

It Does

"Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does."

- William James

Love Until It Hurts

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

- Mother Teresa

Why Do You Obey?

“Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don’t obey God to get God himself – in order to resemble him, love him, know him and delight him. So religious and moral people can be avoiding Jesus as Savior and Lord as much as the younger brothers who say they don’t believe in God and define right and wrong for themselves.”

- A quote out of the book, The Prodigal God by Tim Keller, quoted in On The Brink of Grace by Michelle on her blog Graceful: Faith in the Everyday

He Is Part Of Your Story

“The parts of the story you want to cut out are the very parts that God wants to write in...

He wants to take where we’ve been and show us He was there.

He wants to show us He saw the loneliness in our eyes and heard the cries that went unshed.

He causes the events of our struggles to coincide with His timing –

to help us understand He rescues us,
when we can’t put the pieces back together again;

to love us when we feel unlovable,
so that we can no longer deny His undying faithfulness to us."

- An excerpt from When We Try to Kill Our Stories by Bonnie on her blog Faith Barista