There are three things that will remain

"If you try to have faith, you will be attacked by doubts you never knew you were capable of.

But you keep on believing, even if you fall, even if you struggle with doubts, you keep on believing.

And if you live a life that is marked by hope, by the belief that God is good, and there is goodness in the world that awaits us, you'll be disappointed. You'll be crushed, even, sometimes.

But you keep on hoping.

And if you choose to love, you will be misunderstood, you will be betrayed, you will be rejected by the people who most desperately need the love you have to offer.

We are blemished people, and in order to love anybody,

in any way, we have to expose that part of us that we'd rather keep hidden.

Our own selfishness, our own fears, our own hangups, and it's embarrassing. So humiliating.

But you keep on loving.

Many of us are obsessed with becoming rich, many of us are obsessed with becoming smart.

But all of our wisdom, all of our great insights; we see in part and we prophesy in part..

But when that which is perfect comes, that which is in part is done away with.

But There are three things that will remain: faith, and hope, and love.

Make sure you live in those."

―Rich Mullins

Sacred gift

"May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder."

~John O'Donohue

Where you are understood

"Where you are understood, you are at home."
~John O'Donohue

Something beautiful

"In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart."

~Blaise Pascal

What is unseen is eternal

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,

since what is seen is temporary,

but what is unseen is eternal."

~2 Corinthians 4:17,18

Cannot bear

"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."

~T.S. Eliot

Not an adventurer by choice

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

~Vincent van Gogh

So like fear

"My idea of God is not a divine idea.

It has to be shattered time after time.

He shatters it Himself."

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

A bottle of Port

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy.

I always knew a bottle of Port would do that.

If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable,

I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."

~C.S. Lewis

Weeping a little

"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets oneself be tamed."

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Never take lightly what it cost Him

"Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. 
And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours."
~Rich Mullins

For a little time

"For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, 

and then vanisheth away."

~James 4:14

The sound of the rain

"The light of the sun slowly fades away as the thick smoky gray clouds hide it away.
Then it all starts with a low pitched pitter patter then a louder plip, plop that quickly begins to intensify. Pretty soon the rain starts to pound fiercely against the glass window tap,
tap creating a sharp quickening rhythm that’s all its own.
The sound of the rain is so strong and over powering that it forces me to listen to its song."
~William Blake
The Rain Show

Never forget what Jesus did for you

"Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him.

And never assume that if it cost Him His very life,

that it won't also cost you yours."

~Rich Mullins

Symbols for the unimaginable

"The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable
and symbols for the unimaginable."

~C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

The weakest saint

"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."
~William Cowper

The depth of what is unsayable

"One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively
to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words,

they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth

of what is unsayable between two people."

~John O'Donohue

Alpha and the Omega

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.
To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.
Those who are victorious will inherit all this,
and I will be their God and they will be My children."

~Revelation 21:6,7

From death to life

"We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other.
Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer,
and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in Him..."

~1 John 3:14,15

Rather fear Him

"And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
Rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
~Matthew 10:28