Kristi > Kristi's Quotes

“...life without coffee is not really life.”
― Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World

“I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.”
― Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading

“...the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches of show business, where the overriding objective is getting and satisfying an audience.”
― Neal Gabler, Life: The Movie - How Entertainment Conquered Reality

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
― John Muir

“And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

“Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.”
― Dallas Willard, The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

“Teenagers with doubts who felt the freedom and had the opportunity to express their questions actually showed greater faith
maturity.

Put more simply, it's not doubt that is toxic to faith-it's silence. Tough questions are most likely to sabotage faith when adults stifle
them.”
― Kara Powell, 3 Big Questions That Change Every Teenager

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2: Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931-1949

“Faithful discernment in decision making is seldom an individual enterprise. More often than not, the Holy Spirit guides us through both our own thinking and the feelings it generates, as well as through the insights that come from others.”
― Trevor Hudson, Holy Spirit Here and Now

“There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be.”
― Christopher Ash, Zeal without Burnout

“The best bit of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.”
― Pete Greig, How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People

“All that is not the love of God has no meaning for me. I can truthfully say that I have no interest in anything but the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. If God wants it to, my life will be useful through my word and witness. If he wants it to, my life will bear fruit through my prayers and sacrifices. But the usefulness of my life is his concern, not mine. It would be indecent of me to worry about that.”
― Pete Greig, How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People

“It is much more important to cultivate the    quiet, inward space of a constant listening than to always be approaching God for specific direction.”
― Dallas Willard, Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
― Renovare, The Reservoir: A 15-Month Weekday Devotional for Individuals and Groups

“Jesus-centered spiritual formation is the process of being transformed into the image of Christ, through a relationship of intimacy with God, by the power of the Spirit, in order to live a good and beautiful life of faith, hope, love, joy, and peace—a life that will be a blessing to oneself and to others and will glorify God now and for all eternity. — James Bryan Smith”
― Renovare, The Reservoir: A 15-Month Weekday Devotional for Individuals and Groups

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. — Søren Kierkegaard”
― Renovare, The Reservoir: A 15-Month Weekday Devotional for Individuals and Groups

“We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.”
― Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“The so-called “right to privacy” of which so much is made in contemporary life is in very large measure merely a way of avoiding scrutiny in our wrongdoing.”
― Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“The experience of a life without lack depends first and foremost upon the presence of God in our lives, because the source of this life is God himself.”
― Dallas Willard, Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23

“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
― William Penn

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“Their grasp of the English language is not a reflection of their intelligence, but a reflection of the sacrifice that they have made for us.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“My eyes fill with tears. All these years, I have never seen it that way, but Ma’s right. I did grow up with four mothers, and it really has been amazing. There’s been so much love in my life that I took for granted.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“Yes, you right, more respectful". She pats me on the cheek. "I raise you so well".

Hysteria rises from deep in my stomach and I have to swallow it. Trust Ma to take pride in my etiquette when I've just shown her my date, whom I've killed, in the trunk of my car.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“And I'll take the heartache and the horror and the losses too, the fear of not knowing how it will all come to be, because that is life, in all its glorious, messy Technicolor. And I know I am so lucky to be here, and that every breath I take is the good part.”
― Sophie Cousens, The Good Part