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“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.”
― Matthew Kelly

“Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

“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

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.”
― A.W. Tozer, Man - The Dwelling Place Of God

“The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

“The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.”
― A.W. Tozer

“We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Attributes of God: A Journey Into the Father's Heart

“The Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING.”
― A.W. Tozer

“If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”
― John Newton, Amazing Grace

“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”
― John Newton

“I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)”
― John Newton

“If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.”
― John Newton

“The appearance of an angel from heaven could add nothing to the certainty of the declarations he has already put into our hands.”
― John Newton, The Letters of John Newton

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
― G.K. Chesterton