#age

I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn't God's fault when people mistreat me. I still have my doubts at times, but I try to remember that God has given them the same free will that He's given me. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson Taylor

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Ann: I feel like I should read verses and be comforted. But it doesn’t happen. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#miscarriage #trials #faith

We expect our spouses to fill voids in our lives or hearts that only God can fill. Unmet expectations reduce a journey expected to be amazing to ordinary. Unmet expectations breed hurt feelings, misunderstanding, and unresolved conflict. ↗

— Justin Davis

#faith #marriage #faith

It is the small, mundane choices we make every day that cause the biggest difference ↗

— Justin Davis

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He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead language, the immediate magic of the Eucharist bringing the dead back to life so that the faithful could devour Him and become of Him, the smell of incense and the mystical chanting. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#christianity #jesus #language #magic #mysticism

Judgments are like a snowball. They stick to you. As time rolls along, the snowball becomes a boulder and then an avalanche. ↗

— John Kuypers

#happiness #marriage #non-judgment #relationships #faith

Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept his will. It is their agency. He cannot force his will upon them. If he did, he would cease to be God. They . . . we must choose for ourselves to accept his will with unbreakable faith in our Father. That is when the Father moves us to do his will.” (The Spirit. From Book 2, "Worlds Without End: Aftermath," coming September 1, 2012) ↗

— Shaun F. Messick

#agency #faith #father #god #quotes

Neither Emma's tears nor her rage were enough to make Joseph monogamous, however; nor were the prevailing mores of the day. He kept falling rapturously in love with women not his wife. And because that rapture was so wholly consuming, and felt so good, it struck him as impossible that God might possibly frown on such a thing. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#plural-marriage #religion #faith

He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#funny #language #spanish #funny

[Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely wrote, “Thank you, anyway, kind sir, but I am not going to marry you. ↗

— Kristiana Gregory

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