#chris

We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we still of any use? What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, and straightforward men. Will our inward power of resistance be strong enough, and our honesty with ourselves remorseless enough, for us to find our way back to simplicity and straightforwardness? ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#art

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#expression #god #life #religion #art

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#justice #art

Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward. ↗

— Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#inspirational #inspirational

Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on money. The believer's attitude toward money and possessions is determinative. ↗

— John MacArthur

#faith #faithfulness #money #possession #prayer

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#christian-living #etiquette #etiquette-and-attitude #inspirational #manners

A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment. ↗

— Maralee McKee

#character #christian-living #etiquette #manners #attitude

Attitude determines Altitude. Winners never quit. No venture, No gain. ↗

— Stella Oladiran

#dating #family #inspirational #marriage #relationships

...for Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us. ↗

— Joshua Harris

#dating #joshua-harris #love #attitude

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#christmas #jesus-christ #nativity #beauty