#ay

Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me. ↗

— Luci Swindoll

#prayer #inspirational

When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army. ↗

— Kristen Heitzmann

#inspirational #kristen-heitzmann #prayer #inspirational

Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#play #inspirational

The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!) ↗

— Marie Forleo

#passion #super-soul-sunday #inspirational

I hear another man cry, “Oh, sir my want of strength lies mainly in this, that I cannot repent sufficiently!” A curious idea men have of what repentance is! Many fancy that so many tears are to be shed, and so many groans are to be heaved, and so much despair is to be endured. Whence comes this unreasonable notion? Unbelief and despair are sins, and therefore I do not see how they can be constituent elements of acceptable repentance; yet there are many who regard them as necessary parts of true Christian experience. They are in great error. Still, I know what they mean, for in the days of my darkness I used to feel in the same way. I desired to repent, but I thought that I could not do it, and yet all the while I was repenting. Odd as it may sound, I felt that I could not feel. I used to get into a corner and weep, because I could not weep; and I fell into bitter sorrow because I could not sorrow for sin. What a jumble it all is when in our unbelieving state we begin to judge our own condition! It is like a blind man looking at his own eyes. My heart was melted within me for fear, because I thought that my heart was as hard as an adamant stone. My heart was broken to think that it would not break. Now I can see that I was exhibiting the very thing which I thought I did not possess; but then I knew not where I was. Remember that the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance. We can no more repent perfectly than we can live perfectly. However pure our tears, there will always be some dirt in them: there will be something to be repented of even in our best repentance. But listen! To repent is to change your mind about sin, and Christ, and all the great things of God. There is sorrow implied in this; but the main point is the turning of the heart from sin to Christ. If there be this turning, you have the essence of true repentance, even though no alarm and no despair should ever have cast their shadow upon your mind. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#faith #forgiveness #prayer #repentance #sin

Don't worry know what you can't change. rest when you can so you'll be ready for tomorrows battle. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose #rose-hathaway #vampire #vampire-academy #change

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#community #greed #honesty #change

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ↗

— George Orwell

#follows #four #freedom #granted #make

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#justifies #justify #long #may #means

Good. Because I don't need protecting." "I knew you'd say that.But the thing is, sometimes you do. And sometimes I do. We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#freedom #jace #love #protecting #freedom