Lives Quotes

The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Think you have nine lives, do you? I saved you once.... don't make me save you again.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

Three means by which God assures us that we do have eternal life: 1. The promises of His Word, 2. The witness of the Spirit in our hearts, 3. The transforming work of the Spirit in our lives.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives.

I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it.

And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?

We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.

Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.

True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes."

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

Follow-up is personal. It must be done by someONE; not by someTHING. For it to be effective we must set the pace. We can't permanently sell something we don't make time to get into our lives.

He made you you - on purpose. You are the only you - ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves.

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."