#ai

It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until you are faced with life circumstances that test your faith, until you are pressed to the absolute limit of your physical and emotional capacity, until you face the unrelenting stress of ongoing trauma, you never really know how you'll respond to what you may have embraced so easily during a comfortable Bible study. ↗

— Kevin Malarkey

#inspirational #trials-of-life #faith

If you really want to know about life, just take time and listen to what the dying say. ↗

— Gabriel Lawson

#inspirational

Desperate prayers may be an indication of spiritual health rather than a sign of spiritual deficiency. ↗

— Jeff Manion

#transitions #waiting #inspirational

Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men” Glenn Close’s character, Dangerous Liaisons “You’ll find that shame is like the pain, you only feel it once” Glenn Close’s character, Dangerous Liaisons ↗

— Christopher Hamptom

#men

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#jaime-lannister #men

This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#entertainment #men #toys #women #men

The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to hear. ‘Do you think I care about these trifles?’ ‘Murder is no trifle, woman,’ Arthur said. ‘No? How many men have you killed, Great King? How many have you slain without cause? How many did you cut down that you might have spared? How many died because you in your battle-rage would not heed their pleas for mercy?’ The High King opened his mouth to speak, but could make no answer. ↗

— Stephen R. Lawhead

#arthurian #arthurian-legend #merlin #morgaine #morgan-le-fay

It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry ↗

— Merle Shain

#merle-shain #men

The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever. It will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#on-the-american-dead-in-spain #the-spanish-earth #men

Good habits are the basic tools that will determine whether you are a tortoise or hare in life! ↗

— Lucas Remmerswaal

#hare #inspirational-success-failure #tortoise #warren-buffett #inspirational