Impact

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. - Jane Goodall

A Nod of Encouragement

People always need a nod of encouragement in their journey, regardless of how confident they may appear to be. - Dennis Rainey

Prayer

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying...The prayer of the feeblest saint on earth who keeps right with God paralyzes the darkness --- that's why he tries to keep our minds fussy in active work until we cannot think in prayer. - Oswald Chambers

Later

Don't write it right, just write it --- and then make it right later. - Tara Moss

Always Time

One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy. - Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms

Reasons

I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever. - Patricia MacLachlan, Word After Word After Word

Reading

Reading is the best way I know to learn how to examine your life. By comparing what you've done to what others have done, and your thoughts and theories and feelings to those of others, you learn about yourself and the world around you. Perhaps that is why reading is one of the few things you do alone that can make you feel less alone; it's a solitary activity that connects you to others. - Will Schwalbe

Situations

It never does any good to compare your situation to someone else's situation. - Darcy Kimmel

Circumstances

Don't let your past circumstances disqualify you from what God has in store for your future. - Tracie Miles

Hearts

We encourage each other when we share the stories that hurt our hearts. - Ruth Ayres

World

The world is so full of pain and confusion, but also such extravagant beauty, that sometimes it is in beauty that we best hear God whisper, 'I am still here.' - Madeleine L'Engle

God's Word

Keep me in Your Word so that I can be encouraged and be an encourager to those around me. - Tracy Klehn

Look

Look closely. The beautiful may be small. - Immanuel Kant

Overwhelms

What overwhelms us does not overwhelm Jesus. - Ruth Chou Simons

Anger

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry. - Charles H. Spurgeon

Rest

Rest will never come by trying to figure it all out. It only comes by trusting the One who has it all figured out for you. - Paul David Tripp

Into Words

He liked all books because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. - John Green

Read with a Pen

Read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious or that might be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory, where they will be ready on some future occasion to adorn and improve your conversation. - Benjamin Franklin

Others

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. - Jane Austen

Wellness

If you won't make time for your wellness, you'll be forced to make time for your illness. - Jill Savage

Hard Place

This hard place in which you, perhaps, find yourself, is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him. - Elisabeth Elliot

Like Breathing

Paul does not ask us to spend some of every day in prayer. No, Paul is much more radical. He asks us to pray day and night, in joy and in sorrow, at work and at play, without intermission or breaks. For Paul, prayer is like breathing. - Henri Nouwen

Anyone

There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story. - Mary Lou Kownacki

Nows

We write to remember our nows later. - Terri Guillemets

Smile

Let us always meet each other with a smile. - Mother Teresa

God's Word

There's treasure just waiting for us every day in God's Word, and it will totally transform everything about our lives. - David Platt

Scripture

I've searched a thousand places for someone to steady me. But only Scripture fills the ache, calms the storm, and makes my heart sing again. - Angel Chua Elloren

Carry Light

Lord, please bring the plans of the wicked to nothing. Please strengthen the hands of those that carry light. - Heather Thompson Day

Kindness

Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

Gestures

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference. - John Wooden

Written Word

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. - Florence Littauer

Pen

A pen is better than glasses as a tool for seeing. - Lucy Calkins

Redemptive Love

God's redemptive love turns our lowest moments into powerful testimonies. - Brittany Tate