inspiration

"Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it."

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me."

"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."

"It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light."

"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one."

"A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands that gives you roses"

"If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment."

"If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dreams we made"

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

"Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning."

"Locating friendship at the heart of mission involves certain assumptions -- that reconciliation with God is something for which every human being is made and relationships are reciprocal."

"Love means never having to be apart"

"Lord, be my rock of safety, the stronghold that saves me. For the honor of your name lead me and guide me."

"The tricky part about discovering our giftedness is that it may be in an area that feels unexpected."

"Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus."

"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats."

"I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they’d fallen from the sun.Her laugh was like a bangle of bells. “Your hair is wet,” I told her one day, “Did you take a bath?” “It is dew!” she laughed, “I’ve been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn."