"O my God, I've come to say thank you for your love today. Thank you for my family and all the friends you give to me. Guard me in the dark of night, and in the morning, send your light. Amen."
-Will Proudfoot, "Son Of Rambow" (movie, 2007)

When I go down
I won't look very far
'Cause You'll be there with open arms
To lift me up again--Relient K, "When I Go Down"

It's a long way from the shadows in my cave
Up to your reality
To watch the sunlight taking over--Switchfoot, "Home"

There is no more tiresome error in the history of thought than to try to sort our ancestors on to this or that side of a distinction which was not in their minds at all. You are asking a question to which no answer exists.-- C.S. Lewis, Is Theology Poetry?, from The Weight of Glory and Other Essays.

"We know not what we shall be"; but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth. Our natural experiences (sensory, emotional, imaginative) are only like the drawing, like pencilled lines on flat paper. If they vanish in the risen life, they will vanish only as pencil lines vanish from the real landscape, not as a candle flame that is put out but as a candle flame which becomes invisible because someone has pulled up the blind, thrown open the shutters, and let in the blaze of the risen sun.--C.S. Lewis, Transposition, from The Weight of Glory and Other Essays

Lady Haleth, I love all of those quotes from Relient K, Owl City, Switchfoot, and Rich Mullins! Some of the most inspiring artists ever!!

Libby, you've seen Son Of Rambow? I love that movie!!

Here's a couple from one of my favorite books, Black As Night: a fairy tale retold.

"My mother did not raise me to be a fisher of men!" -Blanche

"I knew this was going to be one of those days that would get me out of purgatory." -Brother Matthew

Ruby: yes I have seen "Son Of Rambow" and I love it too!

Danny: "I'm hungry. Can you make me some macaroni-and-cheese?"
Walter: "Don't know how."
Danny: "But, I'm hungry; what do you know how to make?"
Walter: "Water."
-"Zathura" (movie, 2005)

Well, most of my favorite quotes are from real life; here are a few.

"Oh, this is a stop sign. I probably shouldn't sit here indefinitely, waiting for it to turn green." - my sister, Destined.
"Why do we call it Good Friday, if it's so sad?" "Because it's not the end of the story." - a sig on here, and a little boy at my sisters store asked her boss that.
"Yes, but people get out of prison," said Caderousse, who was gripping onto the conversation with what remained of his wits "And when you get out of prison, and you are called Edmond Dantes, you take revenge." - The Count of Monte Christo.
"There is no sense in defying The Almighty when you are fighting General Lee." - some General in the civil War.

God is not dead, nor doth He sleep.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"

He is, He was
He always will be
He lives, He loves
He's always with me
Even when it feels like there is
No one holding me
Be still, my soul
He is

Mark Schulz, "He Is"

‎I really like this one (no wonder, it's by C.S. Lewis).

"Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle believed some people were only fit for slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters." -C.S. Lewis

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins. And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope.

Dalben the Enchanter, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander.

Josiah: "You don't have stars here."
Sarah: "Yeah, we do. You just can't see them very well because of all the city lights."
Josiah: "Don't you miss seein' 'em?"
Sarah: "I guess I've gotten used to not seeing them."
Josiah: "Oh, I could never get used to that. Dat always said stars are pinholes in the curtains of heaven."
-"Saving Sarah Cain" (movie, 2007)

(Jerome Fontamillas on joining Switchfoot) “I said to them, ‘I will be your syrup and you will be my pancakes’”

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

“Don’t clap yet, you haven’t heard it, it could be crap.”

-Jon Foreman

“The hairflip is something that just can’t be taught.”

-Tim Foreman

End of Line.

Gildor

Love em, Gildor!!

Reality is a lovely place. But I wouldn't want to live there.
--Owl City/Adam Young

Bishop: "Now Don't Forget, Don't ever Forget, you've promised to become a new man."
Jean Valjean: "Promise? Wha- Why are you doing this?"
Bishop: "Jean Valjean my brother you no longer belong to evil. With this silver, I have bought your soul. I've ransomed you from fear and hatred, and now I give you back to God."
-Les Miserables (movie, 1998)

I'm learning to breathe
I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that You and You alone can break my fall
I'm living again, awake and alive . . .

Switchfoot, "Learning to Breathe"

If it's not nailed down, its free for the taking. If it can be pried loose, it isn't nailed down.

Hashkat, King of the Monkeys, from Lloyd Alexander's The Iron Ring

I will lift my eyes to the Maker
Of the mountains I can't climb
I will lift my eyes to the Calmer
Of the oceans raging wild
I will lift my eyes to the Healer
Of the hurt I hold inside
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes
To You

Bebo Norman, "I Will Lift My Eyes"

@Lady Haleth

Ohhhh, I LOVE Learning to Breathe! It's such a great song! (part of it is because you can hear Tim's voice really well towards the end, but it's not the only reason!)

“I keep thinking I’ve had the best day of my life, and then I beat it. Dangit!”

-Chad Butler

Jon: “We can all relate to screwing things up… or is that just me?”
Chad: “I think that’s just you brother.”

-Switchfoot

I know I'm obsessed. Tell me about it.

End of Line.

Gildor

“God is the Lord of angels, and of men — and of elves.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

~Riella