“Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.” 
― John Ortberg Jr.

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world” 
― Aristotle

“Do you have any advice for your readers? Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s.” 
― Sandy Nathan

“The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.” 
― Roy T. Bennett

“The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.” 
― Eugene H. Peterson

“This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.” 
― Peter Kreeft

“Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.” 
― Robert M. Pirsig

“Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.” 
― Fulton J. Sheen