“Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.” KnowsFirstsFeelingsHumanityOrderFatherLostWaitingChristCompassionStepsShareLove YouPrayingStrangerGod LoveHeavenlyFirst StepsEvangelismHeavenly Father Book:Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions
“I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.” ThinkingFeelsWritingMaySometimesFeelingsLinesLove YouStrangerCaptured Author:Andre Dubus
“It's the difference between someone who loves you more than anything in the world giving you criticism and getting it from some bitter stranger on the Internet. What my dad said to me was the kind of criticism where I was like, "Oh, my God, I'm on the wrong track." I'm so grateful to him for doing that. He was such a no-nonsense guy in that sense.” WorldGivingKindSaidGuyDifferencesLove YouInternetDadCriticismGratefulMy DadTrackStrangerBitterNonsenseSo GratefulLove You MoreNo Nonsense Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?” PeopleLove YouTiredStrangerUp To You Author:John C. Reilly
“Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them.” IfsBookHomeKidsWhiteCuttingLove YouMessagesMachinesLibraryStrangerShouldersOver YouComing HomeFloridaBizarreStampsLawnsGrippingAnswering MachinesWearing White Author:Douglas Coupland
“In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".” ThinkingYearsChildrenSaidPastWifeHeardStreetsLove YouMouthsHarderSevenStrangerTravelerSeven YearsLove SomeoneWidowsLove MakingFamily FriendsSay I Love YouYears Of Love Author:Jonathan Safran Foer