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TRUTH

We will be dead a lot longer than we will be alive.

 Doesn’t it make sense that we would invest more of our time in eternity?

Rick Grubbs

Look around - be distressed,
Look within - be depressed,
Look at Jesus - be at rest.
Corrie Ten-Boom

Know this, if any circumstance would have been better for you than the one you're in, Divine Love would have put you there.
C.H. Spurgeon

Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption "My time is my own".  Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours.  
C.S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

I love because He first loved me, I live because He lives.
Aaron Keyes

FAMILY/KIDS/RELATIONSHIPS

To love at all is to be vulnerable.  Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.  Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements.  Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. 

(C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves)

Of course, there is nothing wrong with providing great opportunities for our kids, helping them reach their potential academically, or building a beautiful environment for them. But we must never forget that the only way for a child to experience true joy and lasting fulfillment is through a right relationship with God. As it says in Psalm 16:11: "In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
Leslie Ludy, https://setapartmotherhood.com/magazine/joyful-mothering/2

"...The mom whose faith is real, whose Bible is open, and who stops fretting about all the time she doesn't have but makes use of the hours she's given.  My children need me to diligently teach them the gospel. And it isn't just beneficial for their hungry souls. God uses it to feed my heart too. Independent and collaborative Bible reading, memory verses, and prayer time—there is time to seek Him snuggled in bed, in the play room, the backyard, and the breakfast table. God is faithful to use the noisy and the quiet, the long and the short, the messy and the clean times. I need only to welcome them." 

~Grace Anna Castleberry 

CREATIVITY

If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God, but like God — that is, if you are human — your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great. 

(John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life, 139)

True creativity bows before the Creator of all things, and finds in Him the source of all beauty and loveliness. 

Elsje Zornes

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

To paraphrase C.S. Lewis, creativity is indeed
a glorious angel, but if it refuses to submit to God’s purpose for it, it becomes the most
fierce of devils. The greater the tool, the worse the weapon if used improperly.

“I FEEL THAT THERE IS NOTHING MORE TRULY ARTISTIC THAN TO LOVE PEOPLE.”
-VINCENT VAN GOGH

MARRIAGE 

“Linda Dillow developed a list of “resolves” and reads them at least once a year. These would be good for every wife to adopt as her own:

• I resolve to keep my husband my second priority after God.
• I resolve to not settle for mediocrity in my marriage.
• I resolve to look at life through [her husband’s] eyes.
• I resolve to grow as a sensuous lover.
• I resolve to give rather than receive.
• I resolve to be faithful to my marriage vows, not only in word, but also in intent.”