Quotes about Life

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

The amazing, whole, overwhelming, abundant life is found, oddly, by letting go. By living a dangerous faith--the kind of faith that believes in a God who knows our hearts and loves us enough to take our breath away.

My dearest Eden, I suppose, someday, after I have passed, you will dig through my journals and happen upon this letter. I pray that it finds you as amazed at the life God has gifted to you as I was when I discovered a daughter

How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.

The Lord of my life, who calls me to be brave and walk into the unknown, amazing future. I am always awed by the wonder of you.

Most of us don't have nightmares that come to life and try to kill us.

Bold and courageous and so full of life. She was adventure and zeal and added a brightness to his day.

Seriously, don't be afraid to allow grace to transform your life.

God's favor depends on His greatness, not our smallness. His great love, showered upon us ... a small life is lived by staring inward but a large one is lived by diving into God's love.

Because life didn't just come with better . . . it came with worse, too. A worse that God could have fixed, perhaps, if she'd let Him, so long ago. She hadn't wanted to take the risk of a broken heart. Of getting hurt over and over again. But wasn't that the nature of love? Risking betrayal? Forgiving? Wiping the slate clean and starting over? Wasn't that the nature of God?

When your heart's desire is the will of the Lord above everything else, then life loses its threat because His love will carry us through every situation.

You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.