» Quotes injekted

Quotes

Books

Armstrong, Heather B. : It Sucked and Then I Cried

Burke, John : Soul Revolution

Carroll, Lewis : Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

Cosby, Bill : Fatherhood

Crosley, Sloane : I Was Told There’d Be Cake

Driscoll, Mark : Vintage Church

Jesus. If one word were to be chosen as the most important word in the history of the world, it would be the name Jesus. – p.13 – direct link | tweet this

Our culture believes that pride is our greatest friend although it is the reason why Satan himself was kicked out of heaven. Pride covets the success of others and is about self — my glory, my arrogance, and my independence. – p.13 – direct link | tweet this

Jesus is the greatest missionary who has ever or will ever live. – p.19 – direct link | tweet this

In the garden our first parents, Adam and Eve, substituted themselves for God, and since then we each have done the same by living as our own gods. Yet at the cross Jesus substituted himself for us to bring us back to the real God. – p.20 – direct link | tweet this

In every way, the church is the people who have benefited from Jesus’ work on the cross, live in light of it, and gladly proclaim it. – p.22 – direct link | tweet this

Indeed, the only perfect Spirit-filled person who has ever lived, Jesus Christ, worked a simple job, lived a simple life, and died a painful death as a flat-broke homeless man by the power of the Holy Spirit as a missionary in a sinful culture. – p.28 – direct link | tweet this

…we must come into culture like Jesus did — filled with the Holy Spirit, in constant prayer to the Father, saturated with the truth of Scripture, humble in our approach, loving in our truth, and serving in our deeds. – p.29 – direct link | tweet this

It is real belief and not a magical prayer that saves a Christian. – p.31 – direct link | tweet this

[Christian] life is not just being with Jesus in heaven after we die but having a Spirit-empowered relationship with Jesus in the present. – p.34 – direct link | tweet this

A few billion people worship Jesus Christ as God every week and do so in the church as the church. Yet, if you walk into various churches and ask the people who comprise that church what the word church means, the odds are that you will get either a blank stare or a series of conflicting definitions. – p.35 – direct link | tweet this

In the early church, people eagerly devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles, not because they had to but because their regenerated hearts wanted to. – p.39 – direct link | tweet this

For fellowship, the church gathers regularly for such things as worship, learning, sacrament, and encouragement. But even when it is not gather, it is still the church. There is a Spirit-bond of belonging and mission that unites the believers wherever they are, in the same way that a family is still a family even when Dad is at work, Mom is at the store, and the kids are at school. – p.40 – direct link | tweet this

…you can be baptized in the church, raised in the church, confirmed in the church, serve in the church, marry in the church, die in the church, and have your funeral in the church, and still wake up in hell if you are merely in the church and not in Christ. – p.43 – direct link | tweet this

Jesus Christ himself [...] said that not everyone who is a member of the visible church on earth is truly a member of the invisible, historical church bound for heaven. – p.45 – direct link | tweet this

The Bible is clear that every Christian is part of the larger church body and is expected to participate in the life of a local church with the gift(s) God has given him or her. – p.50 – direct link | tweet this

Why is it important that believers stay together in the church? Because that is where we love other believers, the mark of the Christian according to Jesus. – p.51 – direct link | tweet this

Believers in Jesus Christ seek the welfare of the city where God has sent them to live (Jer.29:7), and pray to the Lord on behalf of its rulers (Ezra 6:10; 1 Tim. 2:1-2). They live as good citizens of the state while recognizing that they are first citizens of the heavenly kingdom (Phil. 3:20). – p.59 – direct link | tweet this

Before long I was ready to resign as the pastor and instead volunteer in the nursery with the toddlers to enjoy the company of some more mature people. – p.64 – direct link | tweet this

Practically, elders and deacons work together like left and right hands, with elders specializing in leading by their words and deacons specializing in leading by their works. – p.75 – direct link | tweet this

Handler, Chelsea : Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea

Javerbaum, David : What To Expect When You’re Expected

Jeffery, Peter : Bitesize Theology

Keller, Timothy : The Prodigal God

Jesus is saying that both the irreligious and the religious are spiritually lost, both life-paths are dead ends, and that every thought the human race has had about how to connect to God has been wrong. – p.10 – direct link | tweet this

[Jesus] is on the side of neither the irreligious nor the religious, but he singles out religious moralism as a particularly as a particularly deadly spiritual condition. – p.13 – direct link | tweet this

Jesus himself was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, and the sacrifice to end all sacrifices. – p.14 – direct link | tweet this

God’s love and forgiveness can pardon and restore any and every kind of sin or wrongdoing. It doesn’t matter who are you are or what you’ve done. – p.24 – direct link | tweet this

Jesus is redefining everything we thought we knew about connecting to God. He is redefining sin, what it means to be lost, and what is means to be saved. – p.28 – direct link | tweet this

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. – p.36 – direct link | tweet this

…sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… – p.43 – direct link | tweet this

There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good. – p.44 – direct link | tweet this

…the prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it. – p.45 – direct link | tweet this

When a newspaper posed the question, “What’s Wrong with the World?” the Catholic thinker G.K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: “Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G.K. Chesterton.” – p.46 – direct link | tweet this

If you think goodness and decency is the way to merit a good life from God, you will be eaten up with anger, since life never goes as we wish. – p.52 – direct link | tweet this

To find God we must repent of the things we have done wrong… To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right. – p.77 – direct link | tweet this

We may work hard to re-create the home that we have lost, but, says the Bible, it only exists in the presence of the heavenly father from which we have fled. – p.97 – direct link | tweet this

Klosterman, Chuck : Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Klosterman, Chuck : Chuck Klosterman IV

Krovatin, Christopher : Venemous

Lewis, C.S. : Mere Christianity

The truth is, we believe in decency so much — we feel the Rule of Law pressing on us so — that we cannot bear to face the fact that we are breaking it, and consequently we try to shift the responsibility. – p.8 – direct link | tweet this

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies. – p.31 – direct link | tweet this

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake. If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all those religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth. – p.35 – direct link | tweet this

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? – p.38 – direct link | tweet this

…in reality we have no experiences of anyone liking badness just because it is bad. The nearest we can get to it is in cruelty. But in real life people are cruel for one of two reasons — either because they are sadists, that is because they have a sexual perversion which makes cruelty a cause of sensual pleasure to them, or else for the sake of something they are going to get out of it — money, or power, or safety. But pleasure, money, power, and safety are all, as far as they go, good things. The badness consists of pursuing them by the wrong method, or in the wrong way, or too much. – p.43 – direct link | tweet this

…wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of some good in the wrong ways. [...] badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled. – p.44 – direct link | tweet this

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. – p.50 – direct link | tweet this

…people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic [...] or else he would be the Devil of Hell. [...] Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God. – p.52 – direct link | tweet this

We believe that the death of Christ is just that point in history at which something absolutely unimaginable from outside shows through into our own world. – p.55 – direct link | tweet this

We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disable death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed. – p.55 – direct link | tweet this

We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it. – p.57 – direct link | tweet this

…unfortunately we now need God’s help in order to do something which God, in His own nature, never does at all — to surrender, to suffer, to submit, to die. Nothing in God’s nature corresponds to this process at all. So that the one road for which we now need God’s leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. – p.57 – direct link | tweet this

I may repeat ‘Do as you would be done by’ till I am black in the face, but I cannot really cary it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God: and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him. – p.87 – direct link | tweet this

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. [...] That is why Christians are told not to judge. – p.91 – direct link | tweet this

After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. – p.101 – direct link | tweet this

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. – p.122 – direct link | tweet this

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. – p.124 – direct link | tweet this

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. – p.131 – direct link | tweet this

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. – p.142 – direct link | tweet this

…in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this. I can’t.’ – p.146 – direct link | tweet this

Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing. In a sense, the whole Christian life consists in accepting that very remarkable offer. But the difficulty is to reach the point of recognising that all we have done and can do is nothing. – p.147 – direct link | tweet this

…handing everything over to Christ does not, of course, mean that you stop trying. To trust Him means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. – p.147 – direct link | tweet this

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair at that point: and out of that Faith in Him good actions must inevitably come. – p.148 – direct link | tweet this

…that is just why a vague religion — all about feeling God in nature, and so on — is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work: like watching the waves from the beach. [...] you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in flowers and music. – p.155 – direct link | tweet this

And that is precisely what Christianity is about. This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there is a rumour going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life. – p.159 – direct link | tweet this

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only man in the world. – p.168 – direct link | tweet this

…think of the Father as something ‘out there’, in front of you, and of the Son as someone standing at your side, helping you to pray, trying to turn you into another son, then [the Holy Spirit] as something inside you… – p.176 – direct link | tweet this

…when you are tempted not to bother about someone else’s troubles because they are ‘no business of yours’, remember that though he is different from you he is part of the same organism as you. – p.185 – direct link | tweet this

You are not a being like The Son of God, whose will and interests are at one with those of the Father: you are a bundle of self-centred fears, hopes, greeds, jealousies, and self-conceit, all doomed to death. – p.188 – direct link | tweet this

When a young man who has been going to church in a routine way honestly realises that he does not believe in Christianity and stops going [...] the spirit of Christ is probably nearer to him then than it ever was before. But above all, He works on us through each other. – p.190 – direct link | tweet this

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self — all your wishes and precautions — to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call ‘ourselves’, to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be ‘good’. – p.197 – direct link | tweet this

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. – p.208 – direct link | tweet this

A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world — and might even be more difficult to save. – p.216 – direct link | tweet this

The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become. – p.225 – direct link | tweet this

Mahaney, C.J. : The Cross Centered Life

Manning, Brennan : The Ragamuffin Gospel

Too many Christians are living in the house of fear and not in the house of love.

He loves us. He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods — the gods of human manufacturing — despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do.

The church is not a museum for saints but a hospital for sinners.

Jesus’ point is, there is nothing that any of us can do to inherit the kingdom. We must simply receive it like little children.

Something is radically wrong when the local church rejects a person accepted by Jesus. [...] Jesus comes to the ungodly, even on Sunday mornings.

Jesus hung out with ragamuffins.

Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

The tilted halo of the saved sinner is worn loosely and with easy grace.

…repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven.

Have you learned to think of the Father as the judge, the spy, the disciplinarian, the punisher? If you think that way, you are wrong.

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

…there is no such thing as a bad prayer.

God intended for us to discover His loving presence in the world around us.

It is only the reality of death that is powerful enough to quicken people out of the sluggishness of everyday life and into an active search for what life is really about.

…we cannot apply human logic and justice to the living God. Human logic is based on human experience and human nature. Yahweh does not conform to this model.

Unjust? To our way of thinking, yes. Thank God! I am wonderfully content with a God who doesn’t deal with me as my sins deserve.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion.

…how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

Death is simply a transition into the one experience worthy of the name life.

We ought to attract people to the church quite literally by the fun there is in being a Christian.

Faith means you want God and want to want nothing else.

We don’t have to sift our hearts and analyze our intentions before returning home. Abba just wants us to show up. [...] We don’t have to be perfect or even very good before God will accept us. [..] Even if we come back because we couldn’t make it on our own, God will welcome us.

The ragamuffin gospel says we can’t lose because we have nothing to lose.

The secret of the mystery is, God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.

Miller, Donald : A Million Miles In A Thousand Years

You get a feeling when you look back on life that that’s all God really wants from us, to live inside a body he made and enjoy the story and bod with us through the experience. – p.7 – direct link | tweet this

I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller. – p.31 – direct link | tweet this

If you aren’t telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. – p.38 – direct link | tweet this

We get robbed of the glory of life because we aren’t capable of remembering how we got here. – p.58 – direct link | tweet this

Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it’s not natural to want to die. – p.66 – direct link | tweet this

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. – p.68 – direct link | tweet this

I believe there is a writer outside ourselves, plotting a better story for us, interacting with us, even, and whispering a better story into our consciousness. – p.86 – direct link | tweet this

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn’t all that comfortable. – p.100 – direct link | tweet this

The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is ‘Do not fear.’ It’s in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn’t let fear boss us around. – p.108 – direct link | tweet this

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them [...] that the world collapses in on itself. – p.118 – direct link | tweet this

When you’ve lived countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it’s an odd feeling to switch stories. But I was surprising myself. – p.140 – direct link | tweet this

You become like the people you interact with. – p.160 – direct link | tweet this

The reward you get from a story is always less than you thought it would be, and the work is harder than you imagined. The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It’s about your character getting molded in the hard work of the middle. – p.177 – direct link | tweet this

I realized how much of our lives are spent trying to avoid conflict. Half the commercials on television are selling us something that will make life easier. Part of me wonders if our stories aren’t being stolen by the easy life. – p.186 – direct link | tweet this

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. – p.198 – direct link | tweet this

I like Jesus, and I still follow him, but the idea that Jesus will make everything better is a lie. It’s basically biblical theology translated into the language of infomercials. [...] I think Jesus can make things better, but I don’t think he is going to make things perfect. Not here, and not now. What I love about the true gospel of Jesus, though, is that it offers hope. – p.204 – direct link | tweet this

She said she had married a guy, and he was just a guy. He wasn’t going to make all of her problems go away, because he was just a guy. And that freed her to really love him as a guy, not as an ultimate problem solver. And because her husband believed she was just a girl, he was free to really love her too. Neither needed the other to make everything okay. – p.205 – direct link | tweet this

I’m trying to be more Danish, I guess. – p.206 – direct link | tweet this

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you’d be surprised at how much pleasure you get in material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you’d be surprised how much you like spending time with God. – p.206 – direct link | tweet this

When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast, but it isn’t vast. It’s all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there’s a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy’s driveway connects with yours, and you’d be surprised how few roads it takes to get there. – p.238 – direct link | tweet this

It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help. – p.246 – direct link | tweet this

Miller, Donald : To Own a Dragon

The truth I’ve learned about life is you can’t do it on your own. People don’t do well independently. One generation passes wisdom to the next, wisdom about girls and faith and punctuation. And we won’t be as good a person if we don’t receive it. – p.26 – direct link | tweet this

Life [is] a confusing series of emotions rubbing against events. – p.32 – direct link | tweet this

I don’t actually like thinking about this stuff, but I have a sense that wounds don’t heal until you feel them. – p.50 – direct link | tweet this

All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It’s like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him. – p.57 – direct link | tweet this

And though some of us grow up without biological fathers, none of us grows up without our actual Father. – p.62 – direct link | tweet this

…God communicates His desire for relationships. He calls Himself a bridegroom, a friend, a lover, a shepherd. An Old Testament book called Song of Songs is ripe with erotic imagery, and if you take it allegorically, it makes you wonder if God doesn’t want us to be, somehow, spiritually wooed. – p.66 – direct link | tweet this

…we are drawn to those who validate us and affirm us, and we resist those who don’t. – p.86 – direct link | tweet this

…if a person has parents who speak love into their life, they end up with a personality that trusts others more easily, feels more comfortable, gives and takes with authority and so on. – p.87 – direct link | tweet this

I think if you read Proverbs, or the Bible in general, your percentage chance of success goes through the roof. Two thousand years of tested wisdom can’t steer you wrong. – p.127 – direct link | tweet this

That is the thing with kids, isn’t it? I believe God made them small and cute so we wouldn’t forget to feed them. – p.154 – direct link | tweet this

God worked. He created the earth and cosmos. We work to participate in the God-life, to imitate God. That’s also why we take a Sabbath. – p.163 – direct link | tweet this

I had a terrible case of attention deficit disorder that made it hard to concentrate on anything for more than a few seconds. When listening to a teacher give a talk, I felt I was on a merry-go-round, hearing every fifth sentence. The rest of the time I wondered how dolphins talked under water, or what a civilization of puppets would use as currency. – p.168 – direct link | tweet this

…we do not learn to succeed, we learn because in doing so we experience something like the pleasure God felt in the act of creation. We discover His handiworks with Him. – p.179 – direct link | tweet this

…students who are driven by delight will learn more than those driven by discipline. – p.179 – direct link | tweet this

Sometimes a human life can seem no more meaningful than a fish flopping on a shore. [...] My spirituality, that is Christian spirituality, does not tell me to close my eyes and pretend life is beautiful and there are no problems to confront. I am told, instead, I am out of water, and finding water again will require a different kind of water. – p.182 – direct link | tweet this

Miller, Donald : Through Painted Deserts

Nagan, Greg : The 5-Minute Iliad

Piper, Don : 90 Minutes in Heaven

Ramsey, Dave : The Total Money Makeover

Turner, Matthew Paul : Hokey Pokey

Think about it: being curious — to be eager or filled with wonder about something — is a beautiful concept. That’s especially true in relationship to our calling. – p.22 – direct link | tweet this

For me, helping the elderly was much more fulfilling than helping people who could help themselves. – p.27 – direct link | tweet this

Instead of forgetting about what you no longer have, you’re usually tempted to think about it more. – p.28 – direct link | tweet this

The stories we pay attention to end up shaping us. – p.30 – direct link | tweet this

The curious path begins with you being willing to focus a little attention on your own story — not in an egocentric manner, but in a way that makes you get honest with yourself so that you will begin to know who you are, what you’re good at, and how God fits into your narrative. – p.37 – direct link | tweet this

The thoughts and feelings and experiences that make up “God” in our lives can either push us to explore, create, and live freely, or they can encage and limit potential. – p.44 – direct link | tweet this

God is not the kind of God who is going to zap us if we do something wrong. He loves you. He wants you to be certain of that. No matter what you do or where you do it, he loves you! – p.50 – direct link | tweet this

Don’t be afraid to ask questions, no matter how big they are. Just ask them with humility and not with anger. We’re on a journey. And the answers we find don’t come easy. – p.59 – direct link | tweet this

It’s our calling to walk by faith, and it takes faith to live out our calling. – p.86 – direct link | tweet this

When I was a kid, despite loving my father, I was still pretty much convinced that the only thing grown-ups were good at was getting in the way of a kid’s good idea. – p.87 – direct link | tweet this

You see, a lot of Christians today think that Christianity is there to fill their needs, when Christians are actually here to fill other people’s needs. – p.124 – direct link | tweet this

…you have to live happiness; you can’t wait on your circumstances to deliver it to you. – p.147 – direct link | tweet this

Instead of having faith in God, I fear him. [...] I assume he is going to abandon me. But that isn’t God. That’s an idea of God I’ve formed because of my past experience, my brokenness. – p.158 – direct link | tweet this

Some of the happiest people I know are those who don’t mind getting old and facing the ordinary changes that life brings. – p.165 – direct link | tweet this

… we are God’s art — a series of paintings that reflect his creativity. Art that tells his story over and over again, one that constantly reminds us of redemption, grace, love, freedom, and survival. – p.206 – direct link | tweet this

Wilson, Kevin : Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

Music

This Is War, by 30 Seconds To Mars

No Regrest, by Aesop Rock

Painting Flowers, by All Time Low

Come Back When You Can, by Barcelona

Get Me Right, by Dashboard Confessional

What A Catch, Donnie, by Fall Out Boy

Hands Held High, by Linkin Park

The End Is Where We Begin, by Our Lady Peace

Meteor Shower, by Owl City

If My Heart Was A House, by Owl City

Dreamlife, by Sleeping At Last

Side By Side, by Sleeping At Last

Side By Side, by Sleeping At Last

Needle & Thread, by Sleeping At Last

Everything Is Borrowed, by The Streets

Magnificent, by U2

Conversations

“God loves you right where you are, but loves you too much to leave you there.” – Unknown – direct link | tweet this

“Joy is what happens when pain is finished changing you.” – Donald Miller – direct link | tweet this

“When we get to heaven, I think there will be less people there than we see in church every Sunday.” – Michael Mears – direct link | tweet this

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” – Ghandi – direct link | tweet this

“That either makes green, or that makes crap.” – My boss, talking about CMYK colors – direct link | tweet this

“Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.” – G.K. Chesterton – direct link | tweet this

“Let’s do some gratuitous violence.” – Murphy MacManus, Boondock Saints 2 – direct link | tweet this

“I’m somehow involved in some sort of story. Like I’m a character in my own life. But the problem is that the voice comes and goes…” – Will Ferrell, Stranger Than Fiction – direct link | tweet this

Bible

When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” – John 8:7 – direct link | tweet this

For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household. – Ephesians 2:18-19 – direct link | tweet this

The parable of the prodigal son – Luke 15:11-32 – direct link | tweet this

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.” – Job 1:21 – direct link | tweet this