Quotes About Life

All human endeavors depend on God's common grace.

I want that child around for the rest of its life to remind Tom what a fool he is.

It had come as a relief when she had been forced to go into the hospital in Emporia, where she could be given drugs that made her sleep, sleep through an investigation that did not include her sons, sleep through the quiet departure of her older boy to another town, another college, and sleep through the funeral and burial of a beautiful girl who'd had a name, who'd had a family, who'd had a life.

In every decision we make, we are not just deciding what we want to do. We are expressing our view of the purpose of human life.

We must be committed to turning away from idols and toward God as the ultimate source of truth in every area of life. To avoid being "conformed to this world," we must "be transformed by the renewal of your mind

The mainspring of sin is not that we have bodies but that we put things besides God at the center of our lives and turn them into idols.

Just as scientists test a theory by taking it into the lab and mixing chemicals in a test tube to see if the results confirm the theory, so we test a worldview by taking it into the laboratory of ordinary life.

Why do idols invariably lead to destructive behavior? What is the connection? The link is that idols always lead to a lower view of human life.

puritanical" is often used to mean a mindset that is stern, severe, and otherworldly. But in reality the Puritans shared the Reformation view that all of life is sacred. The

The problem is that many people treat morality as a list of rules. But in reality, every moral system rests on a worldview. In every decision we make, we are not just deciding what we want to do. We are expressing our view of the purpose of human life.

worldview, the convictions by which we direct our lives.

The problem is that many people treat morality as a list of rules. But in reality, every moral system rests on a worldview. In every decision we make, we are not just deciding what we want to do. We are expressing our view of the purpose of human life. In the words of theologian Stanley Hauerwas, a moral act "cannot be seen as just an isolated act, but involves fundamental options about the nature and significance of life itself.

We live in a moral wasteland where human beings are desperately seeking answers to hard questions about life and sexuality. But there is hope. In the wasteland we can cultivate a garden. We can discover a reality-based morality that expresses a positive, life-affirming view of the human person—one that is more inspiring, more appealing, and more liberating than the secular worldview.

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

Stop digging.... Yesterday is dead and gone.... Try and forget.... Forgive and Forget.... Don't get worked up.... Anger corrodes.... Everybody lives with injustice at some time.... That's life!... They did the best they could.... Making mistakes is human.... Forgive! Only through forgiveness can you heal.... Forgive ... Forget ... Forgive ... Forget ... Forgive ... Forgive....

When I stopped seeing Thomas, he told me that I would be "recovering" for the rest of my life.

As was done at the time of Maggie's death, scientists and individuals today are still pondering the possibility, if not the certainty, of the eternal life of the human soul. like death itself, this remains one of our greatest mysteries.

The person who fears death, will never do anything worthy of one who is alive," as Seneca says.

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

what's life without a spice of stupidity

We walked single file around the lake, inhaling the unmistakable smell of life poised and ready - fish stirring under the ice, green bulbs awakening below the ground. Soon the water would be free, the leaves would unfold like handkerchiefs, the flowers swell with pollen, the butterflies return. The risks of spring were still trapped under the ice but one good thaw and they would be released.

I always keep one cold, just in case," Jake said as he uncorked the bottle and took out two crystal flutes, and Joanna smiled with delight at this new bit of insight into Jake's life—what a wonderful man he was, what an optimist, always to have a bottle of champagne ready, always certain, even after all life had tossed him, that on any normal day life might give him something to celebrate.

She loved them both, of course, but they weren't nearly as interesting as any one thing she might be doing on any day. Her life was the song. Her parents were background music.

So maybe they didn't get where they intended to go, but they ended up where they were meant to be.