#ch

God hears your every thought, whether you dress it up with 'Thee' and 'Thou' or not. ↗

— Catherine Richmond

#inspirational #prayer #inspirational

And if you lose the willingness, what do you have? ↗

— Sabrina Benulis

#archon #demons #love #sci-fi #urban-fantasy

Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#honesty #integrity #leadership #truth #inspirational

I'm not sure if you've noticed this yet, but Jenny Sullivan likes to overuse people's first names. It's a technique she read about in a book called Own It - Take Life By The Bollocks. She once said my name so many times I disconnected from it entirely. ↗

— Claire Garber

#fun #humour #love

He who has let go of hatred who treats all beings with kindness and compassion, who is always serene, unmoved by pain or pleasure, free of the "I" and "mine," self-controlled, firm and patient, his whole mind focused on me --- that is the man I love best. ↗

— Anonymous

#stephen-mitchell #love

When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing. ↗

— Jefferson Bethke

#dangerous #jesus #jesus-christ #radical #love

I opened my mouth. My tongue wouldn’t form words. I had so much to say. I took a bite of spaghetti. Time passed. When she stopped speaking, her eyes were wet. She wasn’t crying, but her eyes were full. Full of eighteen years of what someone had taken from her. I smiled and stood. I looked away. I ran my fingers through my hair. As I carried my plate to the sink she raised her hand to her face. Wiping eighteen years of love from her eyes, she spoke, “I love you Marc. ↗

— Scott Hildreth

#love

She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine. ↗

— Marisa de los Santos

#life #story #love

The Easter egg which was not found contained a letter from the hen who laid it, saying "Fuck your kids, What about mine? ↗

— Shay Caroline

#parents-and-children #love

I'm a spiritual person, she said. "I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in a Christian church listening to them talk about Isa with a book of Hafiz in my hands instead of the hymnal. And you know what, Yusef? Sometimes, every once in a while, I get out my old rug and I pray like Muhammad prayed. I never learned the shit in Arabic and my knees are uncovered, but if Allah has a problem with that then what kind of Allah do we believe in? ↗

— Michael Muhammad Knight

#church #hafiz #islam #liberalism #muslim