One Step

If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time.

Charles Swindoll

Love's Advantages

If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability.

Charles Swindoll

Doubt and Truth Seeking

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

Strict Materialism

If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brian, I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true.. and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

JBS Haldane

Holes

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Will Rodgers

Materialism

If (my wife who died) 'is not,' then she never was. I mistook a cloud of atoms for a person. There aren't, and never were, any people. Death only reveals the vacuity that was always there. What we call the living are simply those who have not yet been unmasked. All equally bankrupt, but some not yet declared. But this must be nonsense; vacuity revealed to whom? Bankruptcy declared to whom? To other boxes of fireworks or clouds of atoms. I will never believe — more strictly I can't believe — that one set of physical events could be, or make, a mistake about other sets.

CS Lewis
A Grief Observed

Regular Failure

If you are not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen

Celebrations

If we celebrate what is right in our lives, we gain the perspective to deal with some of the things that are wrong in our lives.

Coveting

In order to make a man covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the think difficult to attain.

Mark Twian

Selling the Brooklyn Bridge

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

Will Rogers

Jung on Religion

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among [those] in the second half of life-that is to say over 35-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Carl Jung

Speech and Silence

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Xenocrates

Answered Prayer

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
Lewis Carroll

Jealousy and Friendship

..true friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third.. for in this love “to divide is not to take away”.

CS Lewis
The Four Loves

Overcoming

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Aristotle

Making the Choice

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.
Charles Swindoll

Coming Back

When you’re in transition, you find yourself coming back in new ways to old activities. William Bridges