Youth's Favorite Quotes
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"You can't do everything, but you can do SOMETHING! ...We have to SHOW the world something - not just tell them."
~Joyce Meyers, at Creation Fest 2009
"We don't need a revival, we need a revolution!... Christianity needs a new name - we need to be respected - not laughed at.... Church isn't a church unless we're reaching out and helping people."
~Joyce Meters, at Creation Fest 2009
"'Oops' is not in God's vocabulary"
~Greg Laurie, at Creation Fest 2009
"Where would we share our love if the world was not broken? ...But when are we going to make a difference? ...Let us find a need to share love!"
~Eric Timm, at Creation Fest 2009
"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.”
~JFK
"I guess I thought that I had figured You out. I knew all the stories, and I learned to talk about how You were mighty to save... But those were only empty words on a page. Then I caught a glimpse of who You might be - the slightest hint of You brought me down to my knees."
~Jenny Simmons
"I found God... the only one who’s ever known who I am, who I’m not, who I want to be... Lost and insecure, you found me..."
~Isaac Slade
"This one's for the faithless - the ones that are surprised... they're only where they are now regardless of their find. This one's for believing if only for its sake; come on friends get up now - love is to remain."
~Gary Laswell
"Love will come to save us of we will only call. He will ask nothing from us but demand we give our all... If we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door. No, Love is not a fight, but its something worth fighting for."
~Warren Barfield
"You’ve never felt in place, and you tell yourself it’s all okay. But something’s different today... You want to run the opposite way. And it seems like you’re locked in a cage and you need to find a way of escape. When everyone is setting the pace, it’s okay to run the opposite way."
~Leeland Mooring
"What would I do with my feet out on the blue?... Would I know that I was safe by Your side out on the waves? Would You tell me don’t look down- keep your eyes fixed on me now? When the waves wrap at your feet, don’t you worry- look to me."
~Joel Auge
"And to the bruised and fallen, captives, bound, and broken hearted.... By His stripes He has paid our ransom. Love is here."
~Jeff Owen
“Faith is not believing that God can... it is knowing that God will.”
-Ben Stein
"Give us the willingness, O God, to lay aside the empty promises made by those things that distract us from our relationship with you. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, strengthen our faith to live with you as our center. This we pray through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen."
-Scott Kuechenmeister-Hall, Augsburg Fortress Studies Participant Book
"In Christ, things will come into understanding --whatever our calling may be."
-Vicar Ryan Viands
"Listening to God means turning down the world's volume."
-Church sign
"If God was small enough for me to understand, he wouldn't be big enough for me to worship."
-Bob Lanz (a speaker at Creation Fest)
"Are we 'I WILL' people or 'I SHOULD HAVE' people?"
-Vicar Fred Johnsen
"To really love someone, you have to know where they hurt."
-Vicar Fred Johnsen
"'Works of righteousness' do not earn us acceptance by God. Rather, they are a natural response from people who have experienced God's forgiveness and love."
-Study Bible SideNote found in chapter three of the book of Titus
"Jesus said to him, 'Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.'"
-John 20:29
"Do something for Jesus now, and He will do something for you later. Serve Jesus on earth, and He will reward you in heaven. And His reward for you in heaven will be so amazingly wonderful that if you saw your future like He sees your future... well, you might jump up for joy right now."
-"A Life God Rewards for Teens" by Bruce Wilkinson
"Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines; though the produce of the olive fails, and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will exult in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, and makes me tread upon the heights."
-Trust and Joy in the Midst of Trouble: Habakkuk 3:17-19 (studuent study Bible; Augsburg Fortress)
"It's in being extravagant that we meet Jesus Christ on the cross.... We are called to be extravagant in our faith.... Maybe one day I, you, or someone we don't know, will find a way to be extravagant in sharing this love."
-Sister Anna Mary
"Bridges are not burned behind us... in repentance we find the essence of Jesus Christ... [repentance] is a continual process... it happens daily... it is not a 'fruit' problem it is a 'root' problem... pray to God to produce the good fruit of repentance."
-Vicar Johnsen
"For there is a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay. Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faith."
-Habakkuk 2:3 (Study Bible - Augsburg Fortress)
"No matter where we go in life Christ's love enfolds us... [so] do not fear the 'what ifs' in life."
-Vicar Johnsen
"A believer can find hope any joy through faith in God, regardless of circumstances."
-Student Study Bible, introduction to the book of Habakkuk; "The Problem of Evil"
"We are righteous not because of anything we have done, but what Jesus Christ has done for us."
-Cindy Browning
"There is a difference between hearing and listening.... We are always asking [God], always wanting, always talking... We hate silence.... Where the ear goes, the mind goes with it.... Silence [can be a] useful thing; let us cultivate this silence and time - for if we just listen to God and His message, it will reassure us that there is still hope... So just listen..."
-Vicar Johnsen
"'One bad apple spoils the barrel,' the saying goes; but one good apple doesn't clean up the rotten ones."
-Study Bible (Augsburg Fortress)
"Christ's words removes the blinders from our lives.... he calls us to see where our true blessings lie, and to share those blessings with the poor.... He calls us to serve and be servants of God."
-Vicar Johnsen
"We are the fish, the net, and the fishermen... It is a net of love that binds us to one another; the net that I am speaking of is really the church.... And really what we are fishing for is the Gospel."
-Vicar Johnsen
"Christians don't die; they are reborn."
-Candace Browning
"Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death."
-Proverbs 10:2
"When God blesses us, it may not be for us to hold on to and not share."
-Cindy Browning
"We want the blessing, but too often we don't want the burden.... Christ calls out to us to reach out beyond our comfort level.... We must dare to love completely."
-Vicar Johnsen
"When I come in here every Sunday, I feel like I'm planting a seed in every one of you."
-Cindy Browning
"You don't need a lot to live well."
-Alberto Nava
"A parable opens windows in solid walls."
-Berbert Brokering (author of "I" Opener: 80 Parables)
"Never give up hope; never give up faith"
-Jason Bassette
"God loves everyone; he has no preferences."
-Pastor Timm
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