Our Lives Quotes - Page 28

• If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

  Robert Anthony

  Struggle, Hard Work, Thinking

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.158, Morgan James Publishing

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• Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Real, People

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.17, SPCK

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• Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

  John Piper

  Excellence, Doe, Matter

  John Piper (2009). “Life as a Vapor: Thirty-One Meditations for Your Faith”, p.15, Multnomah

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• When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

  Elizabeth George

  Mind, Roles, Women Of God

  Elizabeth George (1998). “Loving God with All Your Mind”, Harvest House Pub

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• Oh let Jah love come shining in into our lives again.

  Bob Marley

  Shining

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Inner Peace, Prosperity

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• The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Holy Days, Years

  "How To De-Stress This Holiday Season" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Humility

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.52, Paulist Press

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• God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

  Michael Horton

  Purpose, Actors, Way

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• God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

  John Piper

  Dream, Passion, Thinking

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships.

  James Redfield

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Taken

  James Redfield (2011). “The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide To The Nine Insights (Storycuts)”, p.17, Random House

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• Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our lives - in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles - we can forget our souls. We do not tend to them, as if they matter less. But I don't think they matter less.

  Susan Fletcher

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

  Lee Grant

  Giving, Way, Dignity

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• None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

  Jake Lloyd

  Stars, War, Understood

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.

  John Piper

  Risk, Done, Our Family

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• Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

  Carol Shields

  Thinking, Use, Language

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• Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

  Julien Green

  Book, Character, Writing

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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• Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.

  Chick Corea

  Long, Doubt, Musical

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• Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Strong, Home

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• I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

  Martha Beck

  Inspirational, Hair, Different

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• God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

  Joshua Harris

  World, Painful Life, Sin

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• It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.

  James Larkin

  Mean, Men, Justice

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• I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Perfect, People

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• So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Long, Temptation, Littles

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.10

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• God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

  John Piper

  Broken, Grace, Trials

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