#ay

Don’t pray that God would teach you how to love like He loves; pray that He would fill you with Himself and that He would love in and through you. Don’t pray that He would teach you to have joy; pray that the living God full of joy would enter into you. Don’t pray that He would teach you how to be peaceful; ask for the God of peace, the Prince of peace to infill you. Because if you try to imitate in your own strength, you will be a miserable replica. But if you allow the impartation of Jesus Christ to overtake you, suddenly it all works because it is Him imitating Himself, and He is very good at being God. ↗

— Eric Ludy

#prayer #source-of-joy #source-of-peace #love

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#love #pride #love

No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#house-of-night #kramisha #stevie-ray #young-adult-fiction #young-adult

We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together. Mia's legs are off the ground, wrapped around my waist, her hands dipping in my hair, my hands tangled in hers. And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#gayle-forman #if-i-stay #mia-hall #romance #where-she-went

I swear, I almost died back there on that ship, you know." He let her hand go, but he was staring at her, almost as if he meant to memorize her face. " I know," he said. "everytime you almost die, I almost die myself. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #love #love

I don’t want a girl, or a woman, or a supermodel. I want you. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#love #swoon-worthy #the-one #love

Justin: "...Everyone you love is dead. That must be lonely." Lenah: "It is. But it's not something that defines me. I don't let it. ↗

— Rebecca Maizel

#love

Jace laughed, that soft rich sound Clary loved so much. "I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love

Lord, help us root our feet to the earth And our eyes to the road And always remember the fallen angels Who, attempting to soar, Were seared instead by the sun and, wings melting, Came crashing back to the sea. Lord, help root my eyes to the earth And stay my eyes to the road So I may never stumble. -Psalm 24 (From "Prayer and Study," The Book of Shhh) ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#guidance #help #hope #lauren-oliver #love

Must being in love always mean being in pain? ↗

— Alain de Botton

#love