Do not have your concert first, and then
tune your instrument afterwards.
Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer,
and get first of all into harmony with Him.

~ Hudson Taylor

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College

The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look. Listen. Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.

~ C.S. Lewis

When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.

~ Thomas Edison

One good thing about being wrong
is the joy it brings to others.

~ unknown

When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.

~ Oswald Chambers

"Maybe you've not yet tasted
your favorite food"
(regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven)

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven

Doubt comes from a struggling mind.
Unbelief comes from a struggling will.

~ Chuck Missler

If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!

~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)

Beware of paying attention
or going back to what you once were,
when God wants you to be something
that you have never been.

~ Oswald Chambers

Hope means hoping
when things are hopeless,
or it is no virtue at all.
Faith means believing the incredible,
or it has no virtue at all.

~ G.K. Chesterton

Use what talents you possess:
the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke

Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.

~ Sigmund Freud

All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.

~ Julian of Norwich

The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.

~ Canon Tallis

Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom

I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!

~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore

It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.

~ Goethe

Even if you're on the right track
you'll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.

~ unknown

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown

My best friend is a person who
will give me a book
I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.

~ T.S. Eliot

You will ask me where I get my ideas...I cannot tell you with certainty; they come unsummoned...in the silence of the nights, early in the morning... tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

~ Ludwig Von Beethoven

Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.

~ unknown

a children's book is
any book
a child will read.

~ Madeleine L'Engle

Don`t cry yet;
there`s still God!

~ Carissa Cooper

Creativity
is a way
of living
Life

~ Madeleine L'Engle

I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.

~ Claude Monet

Spiritual warfare
isn't just casting out demons;
it's Spirit-controlled thinking
and attitudes.