“25 Random Things” has gone viral. NBC Nightly News and Associated Press have both noted that millions have responded to the “tag” to write and distribute 25 random things about themselves. Unless you are invisible on Facebook or your friends are merciful, you’ve likely been tagged yourself. It seems we’re talking about ourselves by the millions these days, thanks to this epidemic of virtual introspection.

So here are 25 random things. But not about me. This is the kind of stuff that really should be getting around, and causing some serious buzz: 

1. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. Jim Elliot
2. If you’re in the right place at the right time doing the right thing, you’ll seldom find yourself in trouble. Mrs. Shumate, my third grade Sunday School teacher
3. You can never sanctify to God that with which you seek to satisfy yourself. Oswald Chambers
4. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. John Piper
5. Through life, through death, through sorrow and through sinning, he shall suffice me for he hath sufficed; Christ is the end for Christ is the beginning, Christ the beginning for the end is Christ. F.W.H. Myers
6. God alone is a thousand companions; he alone is a world of friends. Thomas a Kempis
7. If there were anyplace better for you than the one in which you find yourself, Divine Love would have placed you there. Charles Spurgeon
8. God is God. I dethrone him in my heart when I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. Elizabeth Elliot
9. In love, he claims all. There is no bargaining with him. C.S. Lewis
10. If I find in myself a desire which no earthly experience can satisfy, the most logical explanation is that I was made for another world. C.S. Lewis
11. The longer the blessing is in coming, the richer it will be when it arrives. That which costs us the most prayer will be worth the most. Charles Spurgeon
12. Even a bare-bones human existence contains enough glory to stagger any one of us into bewildered awe. Eugene Peterson
13. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
14. If death is a door it has two sides, as the sea has two shores. Peter Kreeft
15. If the church is to make any impression on the modern mind, she will have to preach Christ and the cross. Dorothy Sayers
16. The very first demand that [a carpenter’s] religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Work must be good work before it can call itself God’s work. Dorothy Sayers
17. The greatest crisis we ever face is the surrender of our will. Oswald Chambers
18. To whom would love appear but to those in most desperate need? Wendell Berry
19. Our task in the present is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life…as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second. N.T. Wright
20. Worship that which is transient, and it can only give you death. N.T. Wright
21. Though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. C.S. Lewis
22. You must let God be your God and not allow anything to be more important than loving him. Martin Luther
23. Joy is the gigantic secret of the Christian. G.K. Chesterton
24. Can he have followed far, who has not wound, nor scar? Amy Carmichael
25. What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would barely fill a cup. Frederick Buechner

Care to add to this 25?