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28 inspirational quotes to change your life

28 inspirational quotes to change your life

Great quotes can inspire us, motivate us, and give us that extra dose of 'boost' we need. It's time to put the past behind and look forward to the future with renewed vitality..

  • Amazing Grace

    There are a few hymns that I really like, and “Amazing Grace” is one of them. But somehow, like so many other familiar tunes, the weight of the words soon gets lost in our familiarity with the song.

  • Is Jesus the answer?

    Answering questions seemed easy as a kid. At Sunday school it seemed like nine out of ten times the answer was 'Jesus'. It was easy to put your hand up and have something to say.

  • Expect the unaccepted

    When I moved to Sydney for university I had what I now refer to as '2 years off.' The Christian label without the Christian lifestyle, or something to that effect.

  • Joy — a singing bird

    “If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.”

  • Half price Wi-Fi

    Remember your childlike idealism? The longer I am alive the more difficult it seems to be to live out the things I find ideal. I am rather idealistic, some would say; I am childlike, and I love to journey toward my ideals.

  • Take your head out of that cloud of numbers

    Press releases with trillions of figures, statistics and decimals are the bane of any journalist's existence. The unspoken rule is that, without a justifiable reason, a news story should never have more than two numbers quoted.

  • Normal people

    We're always shocked when bad things happen to normal people. The terror attack in Sydney was an example of bad things happening to such normal people.

  • Let go. Let’s go!

    There's something about the past that makes us hold onto it so much. Sometimes we hold onto the past hurts, mistakes and failures; at other times, the past glories and achievements.

  • Put your hands in the air like you just got prayer

    We all got into it for the same reason, us boys from Christian homes: girls. It would have been wrong for us to demonstrate our suitability for marriage through flirting (it never happens at church) so worship leading was always the best...

  • Oh the dreams we've killed

    Sometimes it’s nice to look back on things and see what dreams I’ve achieved: many unknowingly. As a little girl I always dreamed of working at a horse stables; I achieved that in high school.

  • It's just a 'joke', Babe

    Comedy is one of our favourite pastimes in the west. We love a good laugh, something to relax to, and something to make us feel superior. Comedy has also been a vehicle for social change in the western world.