Christian life Quote by Jennie Allen Download Open image ““From His eternal perspective, it's tolerable to allow our temporary dreams to fall apart.”” — Jennie Allen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian life Dreams Eternal Perspective Fall apart Surrender
“He thought perhaps if he dreamt of him enough he'd go away forever and be dead among his kind” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“In this world of dreams, drifting off still more; and once again speaking and dreaming of dreams. Just let it be.” — Ryokan Copy Share Image
“And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Dreams have a way of persisting. They just don't come true until you DO what you CAN.” — Sana Rose Copy Share Image
“And when you give up your dreams, an important part of who you are dies with them, and so does that which makes you… — Jeff O'Leary Copy Share Image
“It is a law of nature that a dream carried for too long inside you must, eventually, begin to rot.” — Neil Bartlett Copy Share Image
“In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“There remained the fear of dreams, which are incontrollable.” — Antonio Di Benedetto Copy Share Image
“What I wanted to preserve was the turbulent gasp in his voice which lingered with me for days afterward and told me that, if… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“This morning, he had been doomed for a dismal eternity,but instead, standing before him was a woman giving him everything he had dreamed of… — Michele Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Even though every piece of today feels small. I’ll do today, glancing up and remembering a race is completed the same way this book… — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“Now let me tell you what I know. Our God is real. Our God is coming. Our God has plans for us. Our lives are short. We must get after it. Because heaven is coming fast. And what we are about to do here is urgent. It’s more urgent than we could ever imagine. We get to play little parts… — Jennie Allen Copy Share
“Nothing is more dangerous, more compelling, more freeing, more radical, more real, more satisfying, more powerful than a person holding a smidgen of faith.… — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“He will take this hell on earth and someday show us how hell was building heaven.” — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“So if we know no place, no job, no marriage, no child is going to fulfill us perfectly, we can make the choice to… — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“Our confidence comes from believing God can do anything , then stepping back and letting Him.” — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“Great people do not do great things; God does great things through surrendered people.” — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“No unique purpose for your life will fill your soul. The only thing that will fulfill and settle your soul is God himself.” — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“To risk is to willingly place your life in the hand of an unseen God and an unknown future, then to watch him come… — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
“God is big, but he moves into the small. God cares about eternity, yet he cares about every second of every human’s life. That is who we serve. When God is only big and only about eternal heavenly things in our minds, we miss out. We miss Jesus. We miss that Jesus loved each individual deeply and met their unique… — Jennie Allen Copy Share
“I am a human, and we humans arrive with "screwed up" on our foreheads. We come that way, but somewhere between toddlerhood and being a grown-up we learn to wipe off our forehead signs. Sit up straight. To be good. But before God I am no different from these men. My forehead is clean my soul certainly is not. That… — Jennie Allen Copy Share
“Vision and rest and work and joy and Jesus and difficulty are meant to coexist. But too often, caught up in our own cycle… — Jennie Allen Copy Share Image
If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
“The point of this work and the Christian life as a whole is not burden and drudgery, but joy. Jesus” — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When it comes, it is not an accident, but a necessity. It is not the sort of suffering which is inseparable from this mortal life, but the suffering which is an essential part of the specifically Christian… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him… As all our knowledge must take rise from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share
“If you want to know how Jesus understands the Christian life, the place to begin is with what he means by kingdom of God.” — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
“As those of you with children know, rational parenting is like the Loch Ness Monster. We all hope it's out there somewhere, but we… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image