If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities,
we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch.
Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.
—Eugenia Price

My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.
—Gunilla Norris (thanks to Ladyblue's blogspot)

For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.
—Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
—Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983)

Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.
—A.W. Tozer

Forgiveness is a beautiful word, until you have something to forgive.
—C.S. Lewis

My Prayer for Each of You: that you would have a rich life of Joy and Power, abundant in Supernatural results, with a constant, clear vision of never-ending life in God's World before you, and of the everlasting significance of your work day by day.
A radiant life and death.
—Dallas Willard (from his website, www.dwillard.org)

Renewal and restoration are not luxuries. They are essentials. Being alone and resting for a while is not selfish. It is Christ-like. Taking your day off each week or rewarding yourself with a relaxing, refreshing vacation is not carnal. It's spiritual. There is absolutely nothing enviable or spiritual about a coronary or a nervous breakdown, nor is an ultra-busy schedule necessarily the mark of a productive life.
—Charles R. Swindoll

Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ.
—Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

We must remember that our experience of union with God, our feeling of His presence, is altogether accidental and secondary. It is only a side effect of His actual presence in our souls, and gives no sure indication of that presence in any case. For God Himself is above all apprehensions and ideas and sensations, however spiritual, that can ever be experienced by the spirit of man in this life.
—Thomas Merton (1915-1968), No Man Is An Island

Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
—John Bunyan (1638-1688)

Real Christians are marked by sincerity—the whole truth about themselves and the whole truth about God. Real Christians stand before people the way they stand before God—transparent and vulnerable. Anything less is a dressed-up Gospel.
—John Fischer