Some quotes...because I ran out of room on facebook

He is no fool that gives up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose -Jim Elliot

Every small pain strengthens us and helps us endure our greater pains in life - A Friendship in Vienna (movie)

Every great enemy shows us the dark side of who we are. The real question is whether we’ll learn anything - Rick Diamond

If people cannot speak about their affliction they will be destroyed by it, or swallowed up by apathy ... Without the capacity to communicate with others there can be no change. To become speechless, to be totally without any relationship, that is death -Dorothee Sölle

If I want something to the point that I can’t conceive of being without it, then it owns me -Rob Bell

…our understanding of how God sees us will shape everything about how we live. What we do comes out of who we believe we are -Rob Bell

A ship on a voyage could sink in the deep
A ship in the shallow could crack on the reef
But only ashore is it save where it is built
And only ashore is it useless
-GS Megaphone

All too often, it is the church that creates cultures in which people feel compelled to have it all together and, therefore, to pretend - Pete Greig

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted (Jesus in Matthew 5:4)
...those who do not mourn will not be comforted and those who do not face the endings will not receive the beginnings - Walter Brueggemann

Wherever you are be all there, live to the hilt any situation you believe to be the will of God - Jim Elliot

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective - Rob Bell

As we mature in Christ, we begin to understand that God's logic is rarely ours and that His path to joy is often marked by suffering - Pete Greig

I haven’t noticed God to require
Perfection
Of those that He is able to use
I have observed however
That those used by God
Weren’t content with their present state of imperfection
-GS Megaphone