#al

I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ." --Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling ↗

— Brother Andrew

#god #highest-calling #living-for-christ #purpose #sacrifice

The act of sex is healthy, normal, God-given. It's the emotions and entitlement that everyone attaches to it that is harmful. ↗

— Alessandra Torre

#god #love #sex #sexuality #love

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#heartbreak #love #love

The tragedy is all right there...in the very beginning when he smiles at her. When she instantly forgets. Forgets how dangerous he is. ↗

— Anne Eliot

#dangerous-love #fear #love #love

There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#anna-cornick #charles-cornick #fair-game #love #mates

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. ↗

— Jack London

#lnspirational #love #life

Hey, Max," I whispered. "I love you, too." The smile that lit up his face was brighter than the neon lights radiating from the London Eye. But mine felt even brighter. Like my future. ↗

— Cassidy Calloway

#romance #secrets-of-a-first-daughter #love

I mean, in the last few months alone, I've been pinned in a big set of white-water rapids, been bitten by an angry snake in a jungle, had a close escapewith a big mountain rockfall, narrowly avoided being eaten by a huge croc in the Australian swamps, and had to cut away from my main parachute and come down on my reserve, some five thousand feet above the Arctic plateau. When did all this craziness become my world? It's as if - almost accidentally - this madness had become my life. And don't get me wrong - I love it all. The game, though, now, is to hang on to that life. Every day is the most wonderful of blessings, and a gift that I never, ever take for granted. Oh, and as for the scars, broken bones, aching limbs and sore back? I consider them just gentle reminders that life is precious - and that maybe, just maybe, I am more fragile than I dare to admit. ↗

— Bear Grylls

#bear-grylls #inspirational #pain #inspirational

It's football season; anything can happen. ↗

— Troy Brown

#football #football season #happen #season

Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#love