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“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
― Robert Hand

“Believe in yourself and the world will follow suit.”
― Tadahiko Nagao, Kokology: The Game of Self-Discovery

“For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.”
― Kim McMillen, When I Loved Myself Enough

“What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.”
― Kaylan Pickford

“Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“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

“Waiting patiently for God to fulfill his promises is what it means to have faith. Putting faith in God’s promises is not something a person does only one time on the day he or she becomes a Christian. The essence of being a Christian is placing all our hope in God, knowing we can trust him to fulfill all his promises—even the ones that haven’t been fulfilled yet. We are willing to wait, trusting that “God’s way is perfect. All the LORD’s promises prove true” (Psalm 18:30).”
― Nancy Guthrie, Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent

“But because I believe God’s plans for me are better than what I could plan for myself, rather than run away from the path he has set before me, I want to run toward it. I don’t want to try to change God’s mind—his thoughts are perfect. I want to think his thoughts. I don’t want to change God’s timing—his timing is perfect. I want the grace to accept his timing. I don’t want to change God’s plan—his plan is perfect. I want to embrace his plan and see how he is glorified through it. I want to submit.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Holding On to Hope: A Pathway through Suffering to the Heart of God

“Trusting God when the miracle does not come, when the urgent prayer gets no answer, when there is only darkness—this is the kind of faith God values perhaps most of all. This is the kind of faith that can be developed and displayed only in the midst of difficult circumstances. This is the kind of faith that cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken.”
― Nancy Guthrie

“Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.”
― Timothy Keller

“When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.”
― Timothy Keller

“When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.”
― Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross”
― Tim Keller

“The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”
― Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.”
― Tim Keller