One of my favorite bloggers, Carlos Whitaker (aka @loswhit), posted a blog yesterday asking for people’s favorite quotes… I LOVE QUOTES so this made me very happy. I am posting below some of my favorites, as well as some I stole from his comments section (he has gotten about 70 entries in 24 hours)… There’s quite a few, but they are SO worth the read!
“We must let go of the life we planned in order to accept the life that is waiting for us” – E.M. Forester
“God thinks you’re worth loving and you don’t get a vote.” -Mark Lowry
“When you fear God and nothing else, you discover the freedom to pursue great adventure.” -Erwin Raphael McManus
“There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more& more; the other is to desire less.” -G. K. Chesterton
“I am the God of the universe, yet I am the least of these.” -God
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. “ -Martin Luther King Jr.
When Mother Teresa received her Nobel Prize, she was asked, “What can we do to promote world peace?” She replied, “Go home and love your family.”
“Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth it can never return to its original size” -Pascal
“If Christians want us to believe in a Redeemer, let them act redeemed” -Voltaire
“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected” -Mahatma Gandhi
“I don’t preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn’t say, “Now is that political or social?” He said, “I feed you.” Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.” – Bishop Desmond Tutu
“Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Tim Kizziar
“A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.” – David Stevens (famed Atheist)
“I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me.” -Don Miller
“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” – C.S Lewis
“God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him” – John Piper
“It is our choices, that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – JK Rowling
“Worship is the strategy by which we interrupt our preoccupation with ourselves and attend to the presence of God.” -Eugene Peterson
“Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials” – unknown
“It is not your intentions, but your direction that will determine your destination” – Andy Stanley
“Love the sinner, hate the sin? How about: Love the sinner, hate your own sin! I don’t have time to hate your sin. There are too many of you! Hating my sin is a full-time job. How about you hate your sin, I’ll hate my sin and let’s just love each other!” – Mark Lowry
“The pain of discipline is much less then the pain of regret.” -unknown
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” – W.M. Lewis
“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time – waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.” — C.S. Lewis
“Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words.” – St. Francis of Assis
“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.” – GK Chesterton
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” -Erma Bombeck
“Jesus does not have a scum filter; He has a scum magnet.” Skye Jathani, The Divine Commodity
I want to know YOUR favorite quotes… PLEASE share in the comments section. I can’t wait!!! 
