A collection of quotes that challenge, encourage and provoke me. A work in progress – I’d love to hear quotes that are meaningful to you too.
“The building of character is the most important business of life. It matters little what works a man may leave in the world; his real success is measured by what he has wrought along the years in his own being.” – J. R. Miller
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” – G. K. Chesterton
“As we look inwards and we feel really worried about our own super, remember that when we don’t eat out as much, the poor in a financial crisis don’t eat.” – Tim Costello
“Sympathy is no substitute for action.” – David Livingstone
“You are not only responsible for what you say, but what you do not say.” – Martin Luther.
“The best thing about prayer is who you get to be with when you pray.” – Ben Patterson
“The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for us. We…put ourselves where only God deserves to be; God…puts himself where we deserve to be.” – John Stott
“A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.” – John Owen