Quotes About Life

Yes, a man is a dangerous thing. So is a scalpel. It can wound or it can save your life. You don't make it safe by making it dull; you put it in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing.

Second, we chose to believe Christ is already within us, and we remind ourselves of this marvel. The springs of life well up from within.

God wants to live this life together with you, to share in your days and decisions, your desires and disappointments. He wants intimacy with you in the midst of the madness and the mundane, the meetings and the memos, the laundry and the lists, the carpools and conversations and projects and pain. He wants to pour his love into your heart and he longs to have you pour yours into his.

Worship is what we give our hearts away to in return for a promise of Life.

the Self stakes out its own territory within us to assure getting its own way, ordering our world to its likings. It has imbedded assumptions and privileges in our psyche; there is a momentum to its desires, motives, and presence in us. I call this the Self Life.

There is a satisfaction we don't want to come to until we come to it in God....[Disappointments] serve to remind us every day that we cannot make life work the way we want....If we'll let it, the disappointment can be God's way of continually drawing us back to himself.

Teach a man a rule and you help him solve a problem; teach a man to walk with God and you help him solve the rest of his life. Truth

The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything.

What have we to offer, really, other than who we are and what God has been pouring into our lives? It was not by accident that you were born; it was not by chance that you have the desires you do. The Victorious Trinity has planned on your being here now, "for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14). We need you.

My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.

Our whole journey into authentic masculinity centers around those cool-of-the-day talks with God. Simple questions change hassles to adventures; the events of our lives become opportunities for initiation.

I've been part of some extraordinary experiences with God. I've had global adventures with him. But I don't live there. Getting there, just like getting to love or anything else that's wonderful in this life, is in the dailies.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."8

To lose hope has the same effect on our heart as it would be to stop breathing.

You will not think clearly about your life until you think mythically. Until you see with the eyes of your heart.

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. —KING SOLOMON (PROV. 4:23)

El problema de la propia identidad no es exclusivo de los jóvenes. Es permanente. Es tal vez el problema por excelencia. Puede perseguirnos en la vejez y, cuando ya no lo hace, es que nos está indicando que estamos muertos.

There is a life you can love, but it takes courage, perseverance, and a little cunning to get there. It takes a warrior.

And so the great battle begins in earnest: the battle for your heart, the battle to find a life worth living, the battle not to lose heart as you find a life worth living.

Whatever isn't born out of deep confidence in God is sin. That includes our personality and our approach to life.

Life will provide a thousand sessions for raising the warrior God calls you to be. Turn your radar on during the day, and intentionally don't take the path of least resistance.

For that which draws us to the heart of God is that which often first lifts our own hearts above the mundane, awakens longing and desire. And it is that life, my brothers, the life of your heart, that God is most keenly after.

Notice that the older brother can't receive the father's generosity; he's closed off, curtained off, by his attention to Self. This is the hidden danger I spoke of: the stubborn life of the Self. The Exalted Me, unsubmitted and unsurrendered to the rule of Christ in me.

You can find that life—if you are willing to embark on a great adventure.