"If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. We default to our lifestyles, enjoying our privileges tra la la, but a fast interrupts that rote trajectory. Jesus gets a fresh platform in the empty space where indulgence resided."

-- Jen Hatmaker

#Jesus Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Space Quotes

“I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.”
“It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!”
“Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.”
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”

Source : "Oprah Magazine", 2004.
“If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.”
“Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.”
“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.”
“I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2016). “Fly on the Wall”, p.35, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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