Life's real failure is when you do not realize 

how close you were to success

when you gave up.

-- Thomas Edison

"I'm Elise."

"I'm Frank."

"That's a terrible name."

"[laughs] It's the only one I've got."

-- Elise & Frank in The Tourist

Failure is the tuition you pay

for success.

-- Walter Brunell

Prejudices are the real robbers,

vices are the real murderers.

The great dangers lie within ourselves.

What matters is what threatens

our head or our purse!

Let us think only of that

which threatens our soul.

-- Bishop M. Myriel in Les Miserables

Do not inquire the name of him

who asks a shelter of you.

The very man who is embarassed by his name

is the one who needs shelter.

-- Bishop M. Myriel in Les Miserables

The beautiful is as useful

as the useful.

-- Bishop M. Myriel in Les Miserables when talked about flower versus vegetables.

 

"I want to be happy"

may be Christian shorthand for

"I want to know the One, and the only One,

who is in Himself all I have

ever longed for in all my desires

to be happy."

-- John Piper in When I Don't Desire God.

God is glorified in His people 

by the way we experience Him,

not merely by the way we think about Him.

Indeed the devil thinks more true thought about God

in one day than a saint does in a lifetime,

and God is not honoured by it.

-- John Piper in When I Don't Desire God.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, 

we will end up where we are going.

-- Chinese Proverb in Nineteen Minutes

The most beautiful of altars is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.

-- M. Myriel in Les Miserables