For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

-- Jeremiah 29:11-13

“To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us.”

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

-- C.S. Lewis

"Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people - the one who is called, and the one who loves that one."

-- Oswald Chambers

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

-- Socrates

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

-- C.S. Lewis