I've got a "few."
"Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered." --John Piper
"One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do." --John Piper
"He became what we are that he might make us what he is." --Saint Athanasius of Alexandria in reference to Jesus.
"God saved you for himself, God saved you from himself, and God saved you by himself" --The Truth Project
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car." --Laurence J. Peter
"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world… earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing." --C.S. Lewis
"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else." --C. S. Lewis
"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ''Thy will be done,'' and those to whom God says, ''All right, then, have it your way.''" --C.S. Lewis
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." --C.S. Lewis
"The Bible is very easy to understand. But we as Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined." --Søren Kierkegaard
"Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time. Now let us get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside of the world, who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips." --C. S. Lewis
"There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice." - John Calvin
"It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it." - John Calvin
"My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,- in what Christ did and is still doing as He stands before yonder throne of glory." - Charles Spurgeon
"It is not a religious act that makes the Christian, but participation in the sufferings of God in the secular life. That is metanonia [repentance]: not in the first place thinking about one's own needs, problems, sins, and fears, but allowing oneself to be caught up in the way of Jesus Christ." --Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was later martyered during Nazi rule for his work. He is the author of The Cost of Discipleship and he lived up to what he preached.
"May God bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we really can make a difference in this world, so that we are able, with God's grace, to do what others claim cannot be done." .-Said by a friend of mine. I'm not sure if he was quoting another source or not.
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