A crisp, clean $100 bill that is crumbled up, thrown to the ground, stepped on and rubbed in the dirt still maintains its value. Life may crumble you, throw you to the ground, step on you and rub you in the dirt, but you still maintain your value.
— DeWayne Owens, Motivationstrainer, Buchautor und Geistlicher
Note on attribution: Die Illustration vom zerknitterten Geldschein ist eine seit Jahrzehnten anonym kursierende Predigtillustration und lässt sich keinem einzelnen Autor sicher zuordnen.
Topics: Meaning & Identity, Hope & Confidence
Occasions: Encouragement
All quotes by DeWayne Owens (1)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Augustine of Hippo
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
There is a God, and I'm not him.
John Mark Comer
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson