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“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”
― Lewis Carroll

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“We don't get to decide who God is.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.”
― Francis Chan, Erasing Hell: What God Said About Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up

“The fact is, He just wasn't interested in those who fake it.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“In the United States, numbers impress us. We gauge the success of an event by how many people attend or come forward. We measure churches by how many members they boast. We are wowed by big crowds.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“We are consumed by safety. Obsessed with it, actually. Now, I'm not saying it is wrong to pray for God's protection, but I am questioning how we've made safety our highest priority. We've elevated safety to the neglect of whatever God's best is.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation.”
― David Platt

“Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator...until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

“Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life