#chris

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #faith

Jesus has prepared the way and has made following our destiny possible, whereas we are helpless by ourselves. We can find and fulfill our purpose by responding to the clear, simple call of Jesus Christ: "Follow Me." He is the doorway to fulfilling our destiny, where our divine design and God-ordained purpose live in perfect harmony. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#jesus-christ #purpose #design

All I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams. ↗

— Christina Westover

#dreams #literary-fiction #literary-quotes #poisoning-sylvie #san-francisco

And so a pattern develops: wake, work cry. sleep. I can't even escape him in my dreams. Gray burning eyes, his lost look, his hair burnished and bright and bright all haunt me. And the music... so much music-I cannot bear to hear any music. I am careful to avoid it at all costs. Even the jingles in commercials make me shudder. ↗

— E.L. James

#anastasia-steele #christian #fifty-shades-of-grey #dreams

He smelled the salt on his own lips and the orange blossoms in her hair. Real ones, he could see now, tucked into the curls with cheap, native combs. The sight of them gave him hope. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#romance #dreams

When you follow your heart, you will be in harmony with your Soul and of course, the universe. If, however, you dismiss your heart’s dreams, there is a strong likelihood that you will be resigning yourself to leading a very incomplete and discontented existence no matter how much or how little you earn. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#dreams

The most fascinating revelation is that humanity can tune into a consistently higher frequency through the power of peace and inner stillness. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#dreams

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#education #knowledge #education

The Biblical educator must not only have a Christian understanding of the material, he must have a Biblical understanding of the student. If he does not, then the result will be a hybrid Christian methodology employed to achieve a humanistic goal. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#education

He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow." It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#education #inequality #social-issues #education