Dodie Smith

“If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.”
― Henry T. Blackaby, Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda

“It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”
― Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now

“When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World