"But do we know what life is outside of our convenient Lexus cages?" --Switchfoot

"And there's nothing wrong but there is something more..."
"You're just two umbrellas one late afternoon..." --"The Beauty of the Rain"

"The bagpipe man is dancing!" --either myself or Alexandra Gholami

"life is mysterious...and a search for causes often brings about unusual results, just as potatoes occasionally resemble eminent statesmen." --some ridiculous cinderella spoof

"There's nothin like a sweet salad of lemony goodness." --Lorelai, Gilmore Girls

"Here I am. Llllllove me." --Cars

"And if Your words are true or not, I'll die trying to prove them." --Relient K

"Take the shackles off my feet so I can dance; I just wanna praise You! I just wanna praise You!" --MaryMary

"one two three BAILEY!" --from Holland trip...

"amy was a fighter
she cut like casius clay
she burned like a fire despite these rains
where time was a question
she only knew one song
she's singing how far, how fast, how long?" --Switchfoot **also, i think this song is seriously the theme song of my life. i've mentioned many times...i want to BE the girl in this song. If there were a soundtrack to my life...this would be at the beginning and end.**

"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget." --jessica, age 8

"take a look at the stars; don't they remind you how feeble we all are?" --John Mayer

"Complications arose...ensued...were overcome." --Pirates of the Caribbean 2

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues; it is every virtue at the point of testing." --C.S. Lewis

"Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But is does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of faith, not of understanding and reason--a life of knowing Him who calls us to go. Faith is rooted in the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest traps we fall into is the belief that if we have faith, God will surely lead us to success in the world...A life of faith is not a life of one glorious mountaintop experience after another, like soaring on eagles' wings, but is a life of day-in and day-out consistency; a life of walking without fainting." --Oswald Chambers

"Well, tell that to the ficus." --Charmed

"and, believe me, you don't wanna see Donna in Deep Ellum." --Dan Riskey

"For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks." --Matthew 12:34

"sir, is this the face of a bat who would lie to you?"
"It starts with a WOO and then you get really crazy with the hips!"
--Bartok, from Anastasia

"dad, johnny cash isn't cool, phil collins is where it's at!" --chris martin

"for some reason, going from wavy lays original to this tastes like fish."--Walter Bo Shirah

"Sorry i'm not home right now i'm walkin into spider webs so leave a message and i'll call you back." --?

"That sound you hear--that BOOM--that's my mind blowing." --Marshall, ABC's Alias

"come up to meet you, tell you i'm sorry, you don't know how lovely you are..." --Coldplay

"you alweady know the one about the widdle stwawbewwies?"
"why do seagulls fly over the sea? cause if they flew over the bay, they'd be BAGELS!!!"
--Brak

"I love you Lord, and I life my voice
To worship You, Oh my soul rejoice
Take joy my King in what you hear
May it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear."

"let me know that you hear me; let me know your touch; let me know that you love me; let that be enough." --Switchfoot

"i know what you're goin through.i won't be the one that lets go of you..."--?

"who am i? just a youth? why has that become the excuse?" --Bethany Dillon

"yay ghetto fabulous!" --Ryan Russell

"i'm sorry but where i come from p and m do NOT sound the same." --Walter Bo Shirah

"You said, lift up your eyes. The harvest is here, the Kingdom is near!" --Shane & Shane

"Any questions?" "Yeah. Can you show me what a bag looks like again?" --Alias

"you can sense the tears before they fall, you see when i'm fakin it all, oh you...you know me well" --?

"Right...where are we going?" --Pippin, Lord of the Rings

"Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mudpies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." --C.S. Lewis

"Maybe redemption has stories to tell. Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell. Where can you run to escape from yourself? Where ya gonna go? Where ya gonna go? Salvation is here.....I dare you to move, I dare you to move........." --Switchfoot

"Then I ask, Have you ever felt abandoned?
Felt so lost that you were stranded,
Just like all the walls were closin' in,
And you were left inside?
Have you ever felt like your days were numbered?
Stuck under a tree in thunder,
There seems to be no way out,
But there is one when in doubt." --Thousand Foot Krutch

"To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?"
--C.S. Lewis

" God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art thou?' It was God who cried 'Adam, where art thou?' "
--A.W. Tozer

"A girl's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a young man should have to seek Christ's heart to find hers." --Anon.


"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one."
"For, after all, how do we know that two and two makes four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past in unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable--what then?"
"But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it into words it sounded reasonable; it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith."
--George Orwell, 1984

"Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat." --Real Genius

"The world is smaller than you think, and the people on it are more beautiful than you think." --Bertram van Munster

"I was faking it, not quite making it, but not going under either." --Anne Lamott

"Sometimes I think of Abraham, how one star he saw had been lit for me. He was a stranger in this land, and I am that no less than he." --Rich Mullins

"Every moment that we borrow brings us closer to the God Who's not short of cash."
"I'm standing on the edge of everything I've never been before."
"When everything inside me looks like everything I hate, You are the hope I have for change, You are the only chance I'll take."
"We are a beautiful letdown, painfully uncool; the church of the dropouts, the losers, the sinners, the failures, and the fools."
--Switchfoot

"The Christian life is about not getting it, and needing more of it." --Nathan Lee

"You're free to dance; forget about your two left feet and you're free to sing; even a joyful noise is music to me. And you're free to love, cause I've given you My love and it's made you free." --Ginny Owens

"Wisdom is knowing what time it is." --Brent McKinney

"You, Yeshua, explained the way He moves, as just an ordinary man. Then again You're the first, Jesus, by Your hand we move, You're the image of the invisible God." --Shane & Shane

"Part of why I am a Christian is that I couldn't have invented it. Grace is beyond me." --'Night-Light', Pine Cove summer 2005

"God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."

"Your love is sweeter than all pleasure; Your love is richer than all treasure; Your love is better than all fruitless joys; You are better!"

"So then to love someone is not to make much of them, but it is to labor and to suffer to bring them what will provide satisfaction."

"God is so barbaric that He, in a second, would let one of His workers die for a cause greater than themselves." spoken in the context that we are called to be revolutionaries and renegades...to be "barbaric" in the same sense that the Lord is...dangerous and passionate.

"I don't need her love to love her all I can." --Andrew Peterson

"God's like an ice cream shop." --Alicia D. Garcia

"Oh, I look good there; I look like a monkey." --Tara Walker

"I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?" --2 Corinthians 12:15
I especially love this verse. It means so, so much to me. I mean, think about it...if a cup of water is poured out into another, then it becomes empty. But what if it is also constantly being poured into? That's the idea he's getting to. He's saying it's ridiculous to think that he could lose God's love, ever, especially just because he loved others MORE. God is continuing to LAVISH His love upon us, and so we have a constant supply that we may pour ourselves out! If we are full to the point of overflowing...WHY NOT pour as much out as possible upon those who need love most? like, try the entire world?? We could all use it.

We could all learn a little bit more about what it means to "most gladly spend and be expended for your souls."

"I just love them till they ask why." --Robyn Eubanks

"Grace brings you joy...and makes you more human than you could have ever imagined. The manly way is the broken way."
"Grace is not the possibility of friendship, it is the actuality of friendship."
"The point of works is fellowship, it's actual friendship. It has nothing to do with being good enough."
"Salvation is actually walking with the Creator, not just looking at Him occasionally."
"Holiness has nothing to do with legal justification. It has everything to do with our duty out of love."
"There are some things you will never learn about God unless you serve Him."
--Eli at Chi Alpha

"God became a man to turn creatures into sons."
"I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise...I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation."
"It could be that my worship to God is all that beautiful to Him."
"It is not out of complement that lovers keep telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight isn't complete until it is expressed."
--C.S. Lewis

"Worship is the quickening of the conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying ot imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of the will to His purpose." Archbishop William Temple

"I'm afraid once your heart's involved it all comes out in moron." --Lorelai, Gilmore Girls

"What a meaningful thing, to do something for someone who is powerless to return the favor."
"When you say you're an artist, that means that you take your art so sensitively that you are sensitive to every nuance of it"
"I'm very interested in you as individuals understanding that the music is not (*looking at page of music*) THIS, (* looks up*) The music is US."
(* points to a guy's music*) "Look at me! The music isn't there!!"
"Never forget who you are and whose you are."
"Stop making that sound. That's the sound of Satan. Don't sing to Jesus like that!"
"There's something about Mondays...if you can just get through them, there's hope. Mondays are 1/7 of your life!"
"LOVE that text. LOVE that truth."
-Dr. Allen Hightower III

"There's no reason for me to lift this up if it's not the truth, but that's the given. It's HOPE." --Mr. Franklin

"What a man thinks when he is free to think what he will is what he is or what he will soon become."
"To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart."
--A.W. Tozer

"Yet, if we were truly men and women of prayer, our faces set like flint and our hearts laid waste by passion, we would discard our excuses. We would be done with blaming others.
We must go out into a desert of some kind...and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God. Then, we will nod in knowing agreement with that gifted English mystic Julian of Norwich: 'The greatest honor we can give the Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of His love.' "
--Brennan Manning

"The author of my hope is writing the greatest story ever told." --Five Iron Frenzy

"Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mudpies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." --C.S. Lewis

"I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when Grace dances, I should dance." --W.H. Auden

"Lift up your eyes and don’t stand still
People of the world
And people of the will
Move on and on and on down this road.
Don’t give up and don’t give in
Someday you will be strong again
But there’s still miles to go." --Dave Barnes

"You think she's pretty; you should see my slingshot."
"You never know when a dead rabbit might come in handy...it already got me one frog."
"You were mentioned once when we were talking about strange people."
--The Trouble With Harry

"self-realization...I was just thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, 'I drank what?'"
"Rue the day, who talks like that?"
"I think the young people really enjoy it when I get down verbally."
--Real Genius

"'I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?' 'I think you can in Europe.'"
"I guess you'll just have to miss out on the witty repartee of Joey 'eat me' Donner."
"'See, there's a difference between like and love. I like my Skechers, but I love my Prada backpack.' 'But I love my Skechers.' 'That's because you don't HAVE a Prada backpack.'"
"Hates him with the fire of a thousand suns! And that's a direct quote."
--10 Things I Hate About You

here we go.

Allow this to be my introduction to why i made this blog at all. i found a need to store all of my favorite quotes somewhere. a journal was simply not large enough, and my hand began to cramp...microsoft word did not seem adequate to hold the volumes either. simply applying a short list of favorites to a facebook account doesn't even begin to cover it. so here, as i find and remember them, i will place what i consider to be the great quotes. maybe someday i'll make it into a book, who knows? but for now the storage space lies here. as for my readership, i doubt there will be any. this is simply the biggest and cheapest comp book i could find. :) thank you, internet.