“We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.” ShouldHappensPainFocusOur LivesRefuseDenyValleys Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.” GivingImportantPurposeDiesBornOur LivesConditionsDefinitionsRefuseSignificantRealmsCowardiceAdrift Author:Joseph Epstein
“To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.” WantMeanHandsJesusTermAcceptingOur LivesConditionsRefuseListsSurrenderDiscipleUnconditional Book:Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished Source: Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished
“One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic.” PeopleFeelsBodyPowerfulIssuesOur LivesEatingAreasRefuseYour BodyPowerlessEmpoweredPrimal Author:Michael Pollan
“Its no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that.” SecretOur LivesMediaGunAspectDemocratRefuseGet AwayMandatesLiberal Media Author:Paul Broun
“We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.” KnowsNeedsEyeWatchesOur LivesPromiseTasksAgreeRefuseSpendingWholenessIncompleteThrough The Eyes Author:Guy Finley
“The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.” RealNamesOur LivesImportanceClaimsRefuseToleranceTolerateFrustratingAttackingReal TruthFrustrating Things Author:Ronald Reagan
“Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.” NeedsSinCitiesOur LivesAreasRefuseSurrenderEngagingSurrender To God Author:Matt Chandler
“The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting them because we decided that as an adult society, we can use children to make our lives better, if you seek the reverse.” IfsChildrenUseAcceptingOur LivesAdultsConsequenceDecidedRefuseAbortionReverseInevitability Author:Greg Gutfeld
“The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.” ShouldMindCoursesOpportunityPleasureGreaterOur LivesShareOughtDrinkingRefuseEsteemOccasionsOur TimeDedicated Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.” PastOur LivesFindingsWeightDown AndRefuseGrievingDragOur Past Author:Steve Arterburn