#car

Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for salvation. William argued holiness for these "second Sheep," without whom there'd be no elect. You can bet the Elect in Boston were pissed off about that. And it got worse. William felt that what Jesus was for the elect, Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite. Everything in the Creation has its equal and opposite counterpart. How can Jesus be an exception? could we feel for him anything but horror in the face of the unnatural, the extracreational? Well, if he is the son of man, and if what we feel is not horror but love, then we have to love Judas too. Right? How William avoided being burned for heresy, nobody knows. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#jesus #judas-iscariot #preterite #equality

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. ↗

— George Harrison

#carpe-diem #future #past #present #time

Don't be afraid to talk, be afraid of staying quite. ↗

— Eugene Lebid

#helpful #inspiration #quite #scared #stay

This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dancing #devil #forgiving #healing #helping

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#life #passion #truth #experience

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. ↗

— William Blake

#any #builds #care #despair #ease

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#christ #christianity #christmas #clothe #enemies

Friendship is not by force but by choice. You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody. ↗

— Stella Oladiran

#christianity #dating #family #life #love

How would your life be different if...You decided to give freely, love fully, and play feverously? Let today be the day...You free yourself from the conditioned rules that limit your happiness and dilute the beautiful life experience. Have fun. Give - Love - Play! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#giving #happiness #inspirational #life-experience #love

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#friendship #love #opportunity #respect #friendship