Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read. More information is here.

Also, if you’ve posted a quote on your blog this past week, feel free to link it here as well. You don’t have to save it for Mondays. And please do read and comment even if you’re not posting quotes.

Here are some quotes that spoke to me:

From Diane‘s Facebook status:

“There is only one person holy enough to fulfill the righteous requirement of the law and it’s not you. Rest.” Elyse Fitzpatrick

I can’t tell you what immediate rest that gave my soul. Even though I know we’re both saved and kept by God’s grace through faith and not our own efforts, somehow there is still a part of me that strives to be “good enough” — and only Christ ever was. What a rest we find in Him.

Seen at Challies:

“Endurance and perseverance are qualities we would all like to possess, but we are loath to go through the process that produces them.” —Jerry Bridges

So true.

Seen at girltalk:

“It is faith that enlivens our work with perpetual cheerfulness. It commits every part of it to God, in the hope, that even mistakes shall be overruled for his glory; and thus relieves us from an oppressive anxiety, often attendant upon a deep sense of our responsibility. The shortest way to peace will be found in casting ourselves upon God for daily pardon of deficiencies and supplies of grace, without looking too eagerly for present fruit.” Charles Bridges

From an e-mail:

Loneliness is inner emptiness.
Solitude is inner fulfillment.
– Richard J. Foster

I’ve pondered the difference between loneliness and solitude often but had never quite thought of it that way. I think another simple difference is whether you want to be alone or not: when you want to be, it is blissful solitude; if not, it’s loneliness. 🙂

From Rita Vernoy‘s Facebook status:

Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.-H. Stanley Judd

One of the most life-changing message I ever heard was one on college on failure.

By the way, just as a disclaimer, I am not familiar with most of the authors quoted, and therefore please don’t take these quotes as an endorsement. I just posted them for the value of the individual quotes themselves and the food for thought they offered.

If you’ve read anything that particularly spoke to you that you’d like to share, please either list it in the comments below or write a post on your blog and then put the link to that post (not your general blog link) in Mr. Linky below. I do ask that only family-friendly quotes be included.