“Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.” SelfAngryHandleKnives Author:Koo Stark
“Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.” LooksBeautifulHairObsessed Author:Koo Stark
“It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.” PeopleLooksAgeDifficultFameHeight Author:Koo Stark
“Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.” WorldHealingWonderImagineTeensUnseenDecember Book:Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Source: Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa
“No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.” YearsHeartForeverChildhoodThousandTenGladThank GodThousand YearsSantaVirginiaSanta Claus Author:Francis Pharcellus Church
“The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.” MenWorldChildrenRealCoursesWonderImagineDancingProofFairyUnseenReal ThingsLawnsChildren Christmas Author:Francis Pharcellus Church
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingShouldLightWould BeRomanceJoyExistenceChildhoodEternalHighestShould HaveSightDevotionChristmasGenerosityEnjoymentAlasSantaVirginiaSanta ClausChildlikeDrearyTolerableEternal LightChildlike Faith Author:Francis Pharcellus Church
“The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.” PeopleKnowsChristChurchAnd LoveConversionRepentanceClassroomConfessionFlawedReconciliationTheologicalSanctification Author:Paul David Tripp
“Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.” PeopleStoriesUseChristianLeadershipChurchPrinciplesMissingOrdinaryExtraordinaryRedemptionOrdinary PeopleEmbeddedLives Of OthersExtraordinary Things Author:Paul David Tripp
“We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.” GoalForgetSituationHolyPrimaries Author:Paul David Tripp
