Chesterton Quote

"Everywhere there is speed, noise and confusion; but nowhere deep happiness and quiet hearts."

-- apparently G.K. Chesterton, source unknown

J.I. Packer Quote on the True Priority for Every Human Being

From the last page of J.I. Packer's 1973 classic, Knowing God:

We have been brought to the point where we both can and must get our life's priorities straight. From current Christian publications you might think that the most vital issue for any real or would-be Christian in the world today is church union, or social witness, or dialogue with other Christians and other faiths, or refuting this or that -ism, or developing a Christian philosophy and culture, or what have you. But our line of study makes the present day concentration on these things look like a gigantic conspiracy of misdirection. Of course, it is not that; the issues themselves are real and must be dealt with in their place. But it is tragic that, in paying attention to them, so many in our day seem to have been distracted from what was, and is, and always will be, the true priority for every human being. That is, learning to know God in Christ.
 

Good quote on Conflict

I don't know the source of the following quote, but it's god:

Conflict is what it is... an opportunity that shows who you are and what you believe.... it is painful and purposeful...