The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are...
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C.g. Jung
Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops...
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Corrie Ten Boom
When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the...
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Unknown
Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
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Corrie Ten Boom
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!
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C.s. Lewis
More Quotes By Rob Bell
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You...
As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we were so "simple" or "naive, " or "brainwashed" or whatever terms arise when we haven't come to terms with our own story. These...
Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.
