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Wholesome Quotes

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• Accountability is about someone reminding you of the person you already are in Christ. -- Luke Gilkerson
• If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood, and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Walking in hope is a mentality shift. Instead of walking around with the belief that sin is inevitable and thereby unconquerable, we live with the expectation that sin is defeated and holiness is inevitable. -- Luke Gilkerson
• In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange. -- Brennan Manning
• Not all those who wander are lost. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
• A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. -- C. Raymond Beran
• Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. -- G.K. Chesterton
• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. -- G.K. Chesterton
• You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -- C.S. Lewis
• I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. -- C.S. Lewis
• One day, when he wipes away every tear, our faces will glisten more brilliantly than if we never would have cried. -- David Mathis
• Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness. -- William A. Ward
• Most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself. -- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
• The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. -- John Bingham
• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. -- G.K. Chesterton
• I was born for no other end but to repent. -- Tertullian
• If you never risk standing for Christ, you will never discover the faithfulness of God’s promises. -- James MacDonald
• We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us. -- C.S. Lewis
• When we behold the disfigurement of the Son of God, when we find ourselves appalled by His marred appearance, we need to reckon afresh that it is upon ourselves we gaze, for He stood in our place. -- John Calvin
• Accountability is not a last resort; it is a lifestyle. -- Luke Gilkerson
• Fears get pummeled when we speak them to one person. Out loud. -- Gary Molander
• A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. -- John Newton
• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. -- James Elliot
• Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. -- Peter Kreeft
• You can have goals in life so out of sync with the Bible that you find the Bible boring. -- John Piper
• You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. -- C.S. Lewis