Here are some quotes that I have included in the newsletters and some of my personal favorites. Feel free to send me quotes and I will publish them on the site. Please give the author and the source, whenever possible.

"All psychological problems begin with an unwillingness to honestly and deeply struggle with our story. As we face questions about our past we are invited to look at those realities in light of God's redemptive plan. To do so does not take away the pain, nor at times the confusion; but it does set our experience in a context, which allows us to struggle toward comprehending God's mysterious purpose for our life."

Dan Allender "What Is Wrong With Us?" Mars Hill Review

"Everything we do, no matter how small, is part of the work of living."

Denise Chavez "Face of An Angel"

"Prayer is a way of life which allows you to find a stillness in the midst of the world where you open your hands to God's promises, and find hope for yourself."

Henri Nouwen

"It is the most difficult thing in the world for most of us to give up directing our own story and turn to the Author."

Madeline L'Engle "The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth"

"There is only one thing worse than training your volunteers and having them leave - and that's not training them, and having them stay. "

Unknown

"Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement."

Max Lucado

"Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage."

St. Francis of Assisi

"To ease another's heartache is forget one's own."

Abraham Lincoln

"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."

A.W. Tozer The Root of Righteousness

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

J.R.R. Tolkien

"Man is broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue."

Phillip Yancy "What's So Amazing About Grace?"

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality... I still believe that we shall overcome."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God's grace."

John R. Stott