#chris

Christ awareness is imperative." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#christ #imperative-for-life #r-alan-woods #life

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through. ↗

— Francis Chan

#god #trust #love

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#christian #christian-behavior #poor #religion #selfish

Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party." "This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress. He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. "So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it's going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you'll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#lissa-dragomir #richelle-mead #vampire-academy #love

When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjöld

#love #mind #love

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#fool #love #rose #tumor #love

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ↗

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

#love

Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers. ↗

— Francis Chan

#love

So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave. ↗

— E.L. James

#christian-grey #kinky #sex #virgin #virginity

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love ↗

— Clarence Jordan

#christianity #love #love