If you do not believe in a person God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable. To whom or what would you address the question? -J.R.R. Tolkien
We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God. -Ozwald Chambers
If you are looking for a goal, hold fast to Christ, because he himself is the truth, where we desire to be...hold fast to Christ if you wish to be safe. -St. Thomas Aquinas
That anyone could doubt the right of the Holy Virgin to be called the Mother of God fills me with astonishment. -St. Cyril of Alexandria
My dear Jesus, my savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece. -Ignatius
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him. -C.T. Studd
It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home. -Hudson Taylor
A slight error in the beginning is a great error in the end. -St. Thomas Aquinas
None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full. -Thomas Watson
Therefore the Christian heart, since it has been thoroughly persuaded that all things happen by God's plan, and that nothing takes place by chance, will ever look to him as the principal causes of things, yet will give attention to the secondary causes in their proper place. -John Calvin
You cannot visit the child without visiting the mother; you cannot in common life approach a child except through the mother. If we are to think of Christ in this aspect at all, the other idea follows as it is followed in history. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture, that those holy heads are too near together for the halos not to mingle and cross. -G.K. Chesterton
I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. -Martin Luther
How will your patience be crowned if you are not willing to endure hardship? Suffer with Christ and for Christ if you wish to reign with Christ. -Thomas A. Kempis
True followers or Christ; Be prepared to have a world make jokes at your expense. You can hardly expect a world to be more reverent to you than to Our Lord. When it does make fun of your faith, its practices, abstinences, and rituals-- then you are moving to a closer identity with Him who gave us our faith. Under scorn, Our Lord "answered nothing." The world gets amusement from a Christian who fails to be Christian, but none from his respectful silence. -Archbishop Fulton Sheen
If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king. -Charles Spurgeon
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it. -Richard Baxter
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. -Ten, Boom, Corrie
Once we realize that human frailties give us opportunities to choose between acting like ourselves and acting like Jesus in any given situation, we begin to see the necessity of responding with love instead of reacting with uncontrolled anger. -Mother Angelica
The word of His truth is hotter and brighter than the sun, and pierces the very depths of hearts and minds. -St. Justin
When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.-C.S. Lewis