Shelleigh Beeson > Shelleigh's Quotes

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life...

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

Which makes no sense.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.”
― Ann Voskamp

“Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“A joyful rebellion is you living differently not because you're mad at how things are but because you are swelling with joy at the thought of how things could be. When you joyfully rebel against your circumstances, against mediocrity or negativity, you invite others into something really beautiful.”
― Brad Montague, Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome

“No one is better suited to be you than you. You are perfectly cast in your role, and we need you. Children need you. The world needs you. Even though they might feel inadequate, great grownups show up. So, show up. Show up.”
― Brad Montague, Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly

“Failing, done correctly, is learning.”
― Brad Montague, Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly

“Often these are not grand gestures, but small acts of caring and daring that have a direct impact on people. It's joyfully rebelling against childishness to embrace a childlikeness. It's trading selfishness for generosity, entitlement for compassion, fear for fascination, and anger for amazement.”
― Brad Montague, Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly

“Wherever you go, wherever you are today, hope is right there too. Just as we look at children and see hope, they can look at you and see hope standing in front of them. Because hope is right where you are. You are sneaking hope into every place you go. Just by being you. You're a masterpiece of hope.”
― Brad Montague, Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly

“Age is irrelevant. It is what you do with your life that counts.”
― Brad Montague, Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly