All Quotes By Tag: Christmas

“If Christmas is not everything that it says it is, neither is anything else.”

“The reason some of us struggle with Christmas is that it refuses to give us what we ‘want’ because it recognizes that doing so sacrifices that which we ‘need.’ And we can be confidently assured that Christmas will never stoop to such an atrocity as this.”

“The greatest joy is not finding something that we’ve been looking for. The greatest joy is when we’d given up on ever finding it and then it found us.”

“I don’t need to paint a picture of what I want my life to look like. What I need to do is to study the picture that God painted of me so that I can better understand how to live out the splendor of the painting.”

“If ingenuity is an indicator of how much we love someone, then the story of Christmas is about as ingenious as you can get.”

“Christmas is God’s way of saying that we’re great, just not in the arrogant way that we think we are.”

“Paradise is not something that we create. Rather, it is something that we find.”

“We are at the disposal of all the resources that we have at our disposal. Therefore, the illusion is that we control them when in fact they control us. And hopefully we’ll figure out that God is the single resource at our disposal that is designed to free us from everything else that is at our disposal.”

“It’s not that God can’t rescue us. It’s that we choose not to be rescued because we’re too blind to see the necessity of it.”

“Why Christmas?” we ask ourselves. It’s because whatever’s staring back at us in the mirror is the very same thing that’s emblazoned across God’s heart.”

“I don’t have it within me to do what God does for me. That’s why he’s God and I’m not.”

“God declared that the end of ourselves need not be the end of ourselves. And if we don’t somehow find that exhilarating, we will end ourselves.”

“The greatest gifts of all create space for the greatest sacrifices imaginable. For if we simply receive something that does not press us to give something in return, we will die fat with possessions but starved of meaning.”

“Far too often I have assumed something as impossible because I’ve held my limitations up against the magnitude of the challenge. But when I choose to hold God up against the magnitude of the challenge, then what becomes impossible is my ability to see it as impossible.”

“The only thing that Christmas didn’t change was our refusal to change, for God extends invitations but He does not demand that we accept them.”