Inspirational Quotes on Life

“To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.”

“Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.”

“It is a fact of Christian experience that life is a series of troughs and peaks. In His efforts to get permanent possession of the soul, God relies on the troughs more than the peaks. And some of His special favorites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else.”

“We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life - by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.”

“We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.”

“As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.”

“Bad will be the day, for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God.”

“Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.”

“It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.”

“Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.”

“The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.”

“The old man does believe what the child believed; but how different it is, though still the same. It is the field that once held the seed, now waving and rustling under the autumn wind with the harvest that it holds, yet all the time it has kept the corn. The joy of his life has richened his belief. His sorrow has deepened it. His doubts have sobered it. His enthusiasms have fired it. His labour has purified it.”

“God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes.”

“But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.”

“Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.”

“I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life is not to make you number one in the world's eyes, but to make him number one in your life. We must be willing to be outshone while shining for God. We hear very little about being smaller in our own self-estimate.”

“I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones."”

“The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.”

“The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.”

“You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.”