#chin

It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son. ↗

— Horatius Bonar

#preaching #love

Alike Jean-Baptiste Grenouille... she's in the eternal search, but not for "perfect scent" but the "perfect love" she drinks from deep inside their souls she feeds her heart with feelings and emotions, warm ... empthy ... she is in search for more... ↗

— Inna Rosca

#love

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see. ↗

— Criss Jami

#afraid #change #cognition #experimentation #eyes

They were all machines, he thought, just like La Mettrie had said in L'Homme Machine all those years ago. So he, Orphan, was a machine of flesh and blood, and Lucy, now, was made of something else, more complex perhaps- but they were the same and... They were in love. Sometimes that was enough. ↗

— Lavie Tidhar

#machines #steampunk #love

I remember loving pencils. I was fond of paper. I loved the small of textbooks. I loved the way the light from a desk lamp was bright on a page. I loved the smell of fresh-cut grass. It was a thing everybody loved, but there was no shame in being that much like everybody else, in sharing that. ↗

— Frederick Barthelme

#love-of-teaching #love

Love melts the hardest hearts Enters between the cracks ↗

— Rick Julian

#rick-julian #tao-te-ching #the-red-pill #love

It is so delightful to teach those one loves! ↗

— Andrew Lang

#delightful #fairy-tales #love #teach #teaching

The boatman then gently guided the raft across. They saw a dead body floating. At the sight of this, the Master was greatly frightened. But Sun smiled and said, "Master do not be alarmed! That corpse is none other than your own." Zhu Bajie said, "It is you, it is you!" Sha the Monk clapped his hands, and also said, "It is you, it is you!" The boatman also remarked "It was yours, I congratulate you." The three pilgrims congratulated him, and they quietly crossed over the Could Ferry in safety. The Master's shape was changed, and he jumped ashore on the other side with a very light body. ↗

— Wu Cheng'en

#monkey #rebirth #change

Anything in your life that’s acting as a security blanket is only smothering the person you were born to be. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#living-your-best-life #positive-thinking #potential #reaching-your-potential #risk

The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectability is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#knowledge #searching #truth #inspirational