Aliyah

“The biggest, most crucial, most significant thing I want you to know is that my life's task is to follow Jesus.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“We're not like the other teenagers around us. We don't conform to stereotypes. We've actually become weird in the the eyes of our culture. Teen magazines were not written for us. Modern pop music is not composed for us. The latest TV lineup is not scripted for us. We're not your average teenagers anymore.
What are we? We are free. Following Jesus means we don't have to live the way our culture tells us to.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer—they are previews of the greater life to come.”
― Randy Alcorn, Heaven: A Comprehensive Guide to Everything the Bible Says About Our Eternal Home

“Slowly, I was beginning to understand that it wasn’t my productivity that God desired; it was my heart. It wasn’t my ministry God loved; it was me. God was glorified, is glorified, when we give Him our hearts, give Him ourselves, and faithfully do the thing right in front of us, no matter how small or trivial.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful