Quotes

I’m not really sure where it started, when it started, why it started or how it started, but it seems that I love to go looking for quotes. Perhaps it is because I read so much and that is why. The one thing that I am terrible at is compiling the quotes that I like and keeping them in an organized, central location so that they are easy to find. I have been playing with the idea of setting up a page either on the blog or the actual website where I can have my favorite quotes posted for easy access. This morning, after getting the songs together for the Praise Team, I went to Biola University’s website reading up on their progress for selecting a new president for the university. I am really hoping that Craig Hazen is selected for the position and, in fact, I started writing an email in support of him last week, but I haven’t finished praying about it and completing it - it is still in my drafts folder. While I was on Biola’s presidential search section, there was a link that looked mysterious. All it said was DBKI. So I clicked it to see where it would lead. DBKI stands for Dream Big for the Kingdom Impact and it is the future vision of what Biola wants to accomplish in the world for the Kingdom of God. On the main page that the link took me to was the following quote:

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horzons of our hopes; and to push in the future in strength, courage, hope and love. - Sir Francis Drake

This quote sounds suspiciously like it came from a prayer, but nonetheless I thought it was a good reminder of Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians in chapter 3 of that letter:

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled ot the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask of imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. - Ephesians 3:14-21 (NIV)

If you have any favorite quotes, please share them in the comments along with a word or two on why you like the quote. Does it remind you of a particular Bible passage?