Chapter 1 More Than We Can Imagine
1. Barna Group, “Six Reasons Young Christians Leave the Church,” Barna.com, September 27, 2011, https://www.barna.com/research/six-reasons-young-christians-leave-church/.
2. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, rev. and exp. ed. (New York: HarperOne, 2015), 50.
3. Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012), 25.
Chapter 2 Is Anybody Up There?
1. A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: HarperCollins, 1961), 1.
2. Barna Group, “Two-Thirds of Christians Face Doubt,” Barna.com, July 25, 2017, https://www.barna.com/research/two-thirds-christians-face-doubt/.
3. Barna Group, “Two-Thirds of Christians Face Doubt.”
4. Although the source of this quote is uncertain, it is often attributed to President Calvin Coolidge in 1929. An earlier version appeared in Theodore T. Munger, On the Threshold (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1880), 9.
5. F. B. Meyer, Abraham or the Obedience of Faith (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1954), 148.
6. Warren Wiersbe, Be Patient (Job): Waiting on God in Difficult Times (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2009), 117, emphasis in original.
Chapter 3 Work Hard, Pray Harder
1. “1848: John Quincy Adams Suffers a Stroke,” This Day in History, February 21, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-quincy-adams-suffers-a-stroke.
2. Robert Samuelson, “How John Quincy Adams Made Lincoln Possible,” The Weekly Standard, July 11, 2017, https://www.weeklystandard.com/richard-samuelson/how-john-quincy-adams-made-lincoln-possible.
3. John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame That Binds You (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 2005), 46.
4. C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 79.
5. Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to Do What God Calls You to Do (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012), 170.
6. Elisabeth Elliot, speech at Urbana ’79, as quoted by Gordon Govier, “Elisabeth Elliot,” Urbana.org, June 16, 2005, https://urbana.org/blog/elisabeth-elliot.
Chapter 4 Don’t Just Pray
1. “Spider-Man (2002) Quotes,” IMDB, accessed March 8, 2019, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/.
2. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, s.v. common sense, accessed January 16, 2019, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20sense.
Chapter 5 When God Says Yes
1. Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012).
Chapter 6 Panic and Prayer Warriors
1. Curt Thompson, Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices That Can Transform Your Life and Relationships, 3rd ed. (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale Momentum, 2010).
2. David Benner, The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 54.
3. Corrie ten Boom, Each New Day: 365 Reflections to Strengthen Your Faith (Grand Rapids: Revell, 2003), 61.
Chapter 7 Purpose in the Pain
1. William Ernest Henley, “Invictus,” A Book of Verses (London: D. Nutt, 1888), 56–57.
2. Joni Eareckson Tada, “My Testimony,” Joni and Friends, January 27, 2014, http://www.nohio.joniandfriends.org/radio/4-minute/my-testimony/.
3. Joni Eareckson Tada, “Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of My Diving Accident,” The Gospel Coalition, July 30, 2017, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/reflections-on-50th-anniversary-of-my-diving-accident/.
4. John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame That Binds You (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 2005), 46.
1. C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (New York: HarperOne, 2001), 52.
2. Heidi Murkoff, “Your Tentative Timetable,” What to Expect, February 27, 2015, https://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/twins-and-multiples/giving-birth/your-tentative-timetable.aspx.
3. James Emery White, “Thankful for the Fleas,” Crosswalk.com, accessed January 21, 2019, https://www.crosswalk.com/print/11660743/.
Chapter 9 Dream Big, Give Thanks, and Have Fun
1. “This Is Your Brain on Fun: The Science behind Learning, Motivation, and Having a Great Time,” Kites in the Classroom, July 21, 2018, https://kitesintheclassroom.com/your-brain-on-fun/.
2. Ever After: A Cinderella Story, directed by Andy Tennant, written by Susannah Grant and Rick Parks (Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox), released July 31, 1998.
3. The exact origin of this quote is unknown.
4. Richard Florida, “The Unhappy States of America,” City Lab, March 20, 2018, https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/03/the-unhappy-states-of-america/555800/.
5. Kate Bratskeir, “21 Percent of Americans Are Online Basically All the Time,” Huffington Post, December 9, 2015, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/american-time-spent-online-is-outrageous_us_566863cfe4b080eddf567867.
Chapter 10 Never Give Up
1. Merriam-Webster Learner’s Dictionary, s.v. persistence, accessed January 22, 2019, http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/persistence.
2. Reinhold Niebuhr, “Serenity Prayer” (1943), public domain.
3. “The 15 Most Important Pirates of the Caribbean Quotes, According to You,” Oh My Disney, accessed January 22, 2019, https://ohmy.disney.com/movies/2016/01/05/the-15-most-important-pirates-of-the-caribbean-quotes-according-to-you/.
4. Phil Cooke and Jonathan Bock, The Way Back: How Christians Blew Our Credibility and How We Get It Back (Nashville: Worthy, 2018), 62–64.
5. Cooke and Bock, The Way Back, 64.
6. Winston Churchill, “Never Give In, Never, Never, Never, 1941,” speech at Harrow School, October 29, 1941, https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/never-give-in-never-never-never.html.
Conclusion
1. Helen Keller, Optimism (1903; repr. Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018), 8.