January 19, 2012
“If you don’t love somebody, it gets annoying when they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you love them you get pleasure from their pleasure, and it makes it easy to serve. I didn’t love God because I didn’t know God.”

— Donald Miller (from Blue Like Jazz; still reading!)

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at 11:19 pm
December 26, 2011
“You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.”

— Jerry Spinelli (Just stumbled upon this quote. I should start reading Love, Stargirl.)

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at 10:58 am
December 23, 2011
“I am almost in­clined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.”

— C.S. Lewis

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at 10:39 am
October 18, 2011
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”

— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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at 10:02 am
August 3, 2011
“When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday’s incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don’t carry it.”

— Peter McWilliams

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at 12:38 pm
May 18, 2011
“I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man’s mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God.”

— Donald Miller (Now reading Blue Like Jazz, chapter two.)

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at 11:55 am
March 1, 2011
“Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?”

— Galatians 3:3

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at 10:46 am