Eric Mishne > Eric's Quotes

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?”
― Francis Chan

“When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“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

“Are we in love with God or just His stuff?”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.”
― 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

“The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.”
― Tim Keller

“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.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“You don't realize God is all you need until God is all you have.”
― Tim Keller

“If the Christian faith gets too identified with a party, it reduces Christianity to a political position”
― Tim Keller

“People don’t like love, they like that flittery flirty feeling. They don’t love love - love is sacrificial, love is ferocious, it’s not emotive. Our culture doesn’t love love, it loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without paying anything for it.”
― Matt Chandler

“Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.”
― Matt Chandler, The Explicit Gospel

“God is more interested in declaring than explaining.”
― Matt Chandler, The Explicit Gospel

“I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.”
― Matt Chandler

“Most people are pleasant when the world is going the way they want. But a person’s character can be seen most clearly when the brokenness of the world has invaded his or her peace, when the way he or she thinks things ought to be is interrupted, disrupted, and dismantled.”
― Matt Chandler, The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption

“The worst thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you’re too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them. Because He’s in charge anyway. And in Him, you’re in His peace.”
― Matt Chandler, Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change

“You can’t take Philippians 4:13 and make it mean you can do anything you want. That’s not what Paul is saying. In context, he is saying, “I’ve learned to be content when I received everything I want; I learned to be content when I got nothing I wanted. I can do either one by the power of Christ.” When Paul says, “To live is Christ, and to die is gain,” he means it. If you want to kill me, I will be more than fine: I will get to be with Jesus. My death will be filled with Christ. And if you want to let me live, I will press on in mission. My life will be filled with Christ. If you want to torture me or imprison me or mock me, I will trust in God. My suffering will make me like Christ. I will see it as a sharing of His own suffering.”
― Matt Chandler, To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anais Nin

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe