"It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance...Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see." 

- Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet 

“Love is not our duty; it is our destiny. It is the language Jesus spoke, and we are called to speak it so that we can converse with him. It is the food they eat in God’s new world, and we must acquire the taste for it here and now. It is the music God has written for all his creatures to sing, and we are called to learn it and practice it now so as to be ready when the conductor brings down his baton.” 

- N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” 

- C.S. Lewis

“Take my will and make it Thine;

it shall be no longer mine.

Take my heart, it is Thine own;

it shall be Thy royal throne.”

— Take My Life and Let It Be by Frances Ridley Havergal

"For you made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you."

-St. Augustine

“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: My God; in him will I trust.”

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭91‬:‭1‬-‭2‬ ‭(KJV‬‬)

“Love promulgates the laws

For friendship’s faithful bond.

O happy race of men

If Love who rules the sky

Could rule your hearts as well!” 

- Boethius

"Modern day: "When there's a will, there's a way." - William Hazlitt in 1822. This came from the original, "To him that will ways are not wanting." - George Herbert

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." 

-Shakespeare, The Tempest

“I don’t turn toward the light because it means someday I’ll ‘win’ some sort of cosmic game. I turn toward it because it is the light.”

Qui-Gon Jinn

“Until the day when God deigns to unveil the future to mankind, all human wisdom is contained in these two words:  'wait' and 'hope'!

-Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo”

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us" 

Hebrews 12:1