I love quotes – quotes of any kind, really. Scripture, Christian, song lyrics, Mark Twain, funny moments, movies… I'll try anything!
I wanted to share with you some of the most inspiring quotes in my life – these have all been favorites for years and deeply move me each time I reread them.
"Do some societies have the right to deny human beings the opportunity to fulfill their aspirations for growth and fulfillment, while other societies organize themselves in a way to permit and encourage human beings freely to fulfill the same needs? On what basis can we accept a double standard that says an Australian’s need to develop his own potential is a right, while an Angolan’s is a luxury?"
-Shashi Tharoor
"If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior. "
– D.A. Carson
“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as a seed goes to the next as a blossom and that which came to me as a blossom, goes on as fruit.”
-Dawna Markova
"?Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple."
-Jesus, Luke 14:27-33 ("Count the Cost"/"The Cost of Discipleship")
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