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“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.”
― George MacDonald

“When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.”
― Leslie Ludy, Authentic Beauty: The Shaping of a Set-Apart Young Woman

“Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.”
― Joshua Harris, Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship

“The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.”
― Joshua Harris

“The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.”
― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye

“The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.”
― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye

“Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed”
― Ruth Bell Graham

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“Stop trying to fit [Christ] into your life; instead, build your life around [Him].”
― Leslie Ludy, Authentic Beauty: The Shaping of a Set-Apart Young Woman

“When Aslan Bears his teeth winter meets its death. When he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman