Quotes

This is the place where I put ALL of my favorite quotes. I add more starting at the top, so keep checking back if you like what inspires me!

As a note, these are in no particular order. =D

Janos: Thank you very much.
Man: What's your line?
Janos: Please?
Man: Are you looking for employment?
Janos: No, I want a job.
--Peter Lorre as Janos Szabo in The Face Behind the Mask (1941)

I left Berlin three days before the Hitler regime commenced (1933), and I was happy to leave, as my nerves were on edge with the tenseness of the political situation all around. I have seen too many starving people in Germany, and starving people are crazy people, willing to clutch at any straw, to follow any leader. Politics in Germany is a vital personal concern. People who have been bosom friends for years do not speak to one another because of differences.”
-Peter Lorre, in a 1934 Chicago Tribune interview about his reasons for emigrating to the U.S.

"Can it be that they are mad themself who call me mad? If you only knew what was going on in this head of mine."
--Peter Lorre, Crack Up (Film)

(humerously) "I started my career in the theatre as a romantic actor but against my will they put me to horror pictures. I always wanted to be the actor who got the girl, but in my pictures, by the time I get the girl, she's dead." --Peter Lorre

Carter: Oh, the film was wrapped in this note. I think it's important.

Hogan: Did you read it?

Carter: Well, it was addressed "To Whom it May Concern," and since I was, I did.

Hogan's Heroes Season Five

"Oh, the cleaverness of me!" --Peter Pan

"To die will be an awfully big adventure." --Peter Pan

"Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy." — Elisabeth Elliott

"Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)

"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him."--Jim Elliot

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."--C. S. Lewis

"Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink."--Elisabeth Elliot

"When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." --C. S. Lewis

"Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary." --Elisabeth Elliot

"It won't matter who my friends were; it won't matter my endorsements; what matters is my heart's response to him." --Mike Bickle

"The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger." --Elisabeth Elliot

"The reason people burn out is not because people are going hard [after God]; it's because they are working and perusing with the wrong spirit--trying to do it in the eyes of men with the wrong reasons; trying to get into a room you are already in." --Mike Bickle

"Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure."--Elisabeth Elliot

"I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ." --Mike Bickle

“Could there be any more exciting turn in the road than the will of God?” --Martha Moore

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” --C.H. Spurgeon

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."  --C. S. Lewis

“Humility is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing done to us, to feel nothing against us. It is to be at rest when nobody praises us and when we are blamed and despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord where we can go in and shut the door and kneel to our Father in secret, and be at peace when all around is trouble.”---Andrew Murray

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"No man is greater than his prayer life. The Pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.” -Leonard Ravenhill

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” –Corrie Ten Boom

“You all want the power, but will you spend one hour with me…?“–Tim Reimherr Worship Set

"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die today." -James Dean

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.”–Martin Luther

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”–A.W. Tozer

“I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus”-Jim Elliot

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