#na

What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? ... in old-fashioned terms, the answer is that it wll elevate your spirit. And that's why I can't take much stock in the idea of going through a list of books or 'covering' a fixed number of selections, or anyway striving for the blessed state of having read this, or the other. Having read a book means nothing. Reading a book may be the most tremendous experience of your life; having read it is an item in your memory, part of your receding past... Why we have that odd faith in the magic of having read a book, I don't know. We don't apply the same principle elsewhere: We don't believe in having heard Mendelssohn's violin concerto... I say, don't read the classics -- try to discover your own classics; every life has its own. ↗

— Rudolf Flesch

#inspirational #reading #experience

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#writer #writing #inspirational

live as temporal, serve as eternal ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #sozo-life #voice-of-the-nations

Our legacy is really the lives we touch,the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan--if even for a moment--and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...walk around the block, dazed...More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you here to deliver. ↗

— Carrie Louise Hamilton

#inspirational

If you have never been saved,you need to stop right where you are and admit to God that you are a sinner in need of salvation. Then ask Him for the gift of eternal life that was made available to you when Christ took your punishment and died for your sins on the cross. Whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ↗

— Jerry L. Ross

#salvation #teenagers #life

She had come to accept, deeply, and with certitude, that she had been born into a world, a life, that would not let her be whole. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#personal-journeys #life

Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy? ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#hannah-harrington #harper-scott #humour #jake-tolan #sarcasm

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone. ↗

— Ike Turner

#change #different #different names #going #gone

Poise is an unseen power, And this unseen power is always ready To come to the aid of the outer action. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#inspirational

...true intimacy—sharing who you are, the very deepest part of you—with Him. God wants to listen to who you are. ↗

— Linda Boone

#journaling-with-god #soaking #life