#ai

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#lucretius #wind #nature

I know you worry about me needing you, but I shouldn't be with you because I need you. I should be with you because I love you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#maia #love

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain. ↗

— Graham Greene

#pain #love

Shane talking to Claire - "In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire ↗

— Rachel Caine

#love

I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able t love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us. ↗

— Susan Meissner

#mercy #faith

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #trusting-god #faith

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies ↗

— Aberjhani

#hope #inspiration #miracles #philosophy #poetry

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#faith

And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime. Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen. ↗

— Cinda Williams Chima

#love #raisa #love

Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy. ↗

— D.L. Moody

#faith