“Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.” 
― Franz Kafka

“We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.” 
― Corrie ten Boom

“God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.” 
― Mother Teresa

“I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.” 
― William Sloane Coffin Jr.

“There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.” 
― Mandy Hale

“Addiction" might be the best word to explain the lostness that so deeply permeates society. Our addiction make us cling to what the world proclaims as the keys to self-fulfillment: accumulation of wealth and power; attainment of status and admiration; lavish consumption of food and drink, and sexual gratification without distinguishing between lust and love. These addictions create expectations that cannot but fail to satisfy our deepest needs. As long as we live within the world's delusions, our addictions condemn us to futile quests in "the distant country," leaving us to face an endless series of disillusionments while our sense of self remains unfulfilled. In these days of increasing addictions, we have wandered far away from our Father's home. The addicted life can aptly be designated a life lived in "a distant country." It is from there that our cry for deliverance rises up.” 
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.” 
― Roman Payne

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.” 
― William James