#chris

Jesus wanted to show mercy to every single person He met. He wanted to sweep them up and embrace them with His love. But because of His eternal plans for goodness, He can't always do that. I don't know why, but i believe He has a greater good than healing our temporary pain. ↗

— Susan May Warren

#jesus-christ #inspirational

We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God. ↗

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

#inspirational #inspirational

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#inspirational #religious #inspirational

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside. But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls. It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room. That’s when the stories can move in. They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#gingerbread #gingerbread-house #holiday #holidays #house

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#christianity #inspirational #life #spiritual #inspirational

God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ. ↗

— John Piper

#sex-and-the-supremacy-of-christ #marriage

The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I was no longer hoping that he would see me, wishing that he would work, or wondering if he would care. Instead, I knew that he would be at work in my marriage, and that somehow, someway, someday he would be glorified through our sufferings. ↗

— Tracie Miles

#god #hope #waiting #wish #marriage

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit. ↗

— Gary L. Thomas

#marriage #romance #love

How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side benefited most form this unseemly marriage between church and state? Or, to put it another way, did the empire surrender to Christianity, or did Christianity prostitute itself to the empire? It is characteristic of the complexities of early Christian history that we cannot give a definite answer to this question. ↗

— Paul Johnson

#history #marriage

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that? ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

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