{inspirations}

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness 
from common things." 
- Henry Ward Beecher

"We're blessed by disease if it brings us to our knees." - Jeff Mangum, on prayer

"Jesus challenges us and offends us not because He wants to give us less but because He wants to give us more. He has come to set us free." - Matt Carter

"Goal for this week: Figure out what Jesus did and do a lot of that." - Bob Goff

"When we step into the arena, there will be the most beautiful music streaming from our lives."
 - Ken Gire

"At the cross You beckon me. You draw me gently to my knees. I'm lost for words, so lost in love. I'm sweetly broken, wholly surrendered."
- Sweetly Broken, Jeremy Riddle

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
 - Oscar Wilde

"And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith." - Hebrews 12:1-2

"God sometimes takes us out of comfortable situations and isolates us so that we have no choice but to hear Him." - Reggie Bush

"Let us not glide through this world and slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our redeemer Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in Hell when he gets the news of our 
departure from the field of battle." 
- C.T. Studd

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato

"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis

"Practice trusting Me during quiet days, when nothing much seems to be happening. Then when storms come, your trust balance will be sufficient to see you through. Store up for yourself treasure in heaven, through placing your trust in Me. This practice will keep you in My Peace." - Jesus Calling

"Let your light shine before all men, so that they may see your good works and praise your Father in heaven." - Matthew 5:16

"My love is higher than the sky, deeper than the ocean, warmer than the sun shining down on me, quiet as a prayer." - The Little Mermaid III

"Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I needed it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend of suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors."
 - Papa, The Shack

"Faith never knows where it is being led,
but it loves and knows the one who is leading."
 - Oswald Chambers

"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength." - Philippians 4:12-13

"Don't save up love for later; spend it like you're going out of business.
We're rivers, not reservoirs."
 - Bob Goff

"Comparison is the thief of joy." - Theodore Roosevelt

"To love another is to see the face of God." - Les Miserables

"If my life is  broken when given to Jesus,
 it is because my pieces will feed a multitude,
while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad."
-  Ruth Strull, on the feeding of five thousand

"I believe in Jesus as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because I see everything else." - C.S. Lewis