#chris

I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#brotherly-love #christian-behavior #love

I've never wanted more, until I met you. - Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey ↗

— E.L. James

#e-l-james #fifty-shades-of-grey #grey #love #love

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#christianity #love #sensuality #spirituality #love

She gave him the wide, green-eyed expression that she would have described as I will slap you so far into next week that it will take a team of surgeons just to get Wednesday out of your ass. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#you-suck #love

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega. ↗

— Ruth Hurmence Green

#bible #christianity #religion #love

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#christianity #love

And after years of hearing the heart-cry of women, I am convinced beyond a doubt of this: God wants to be loved. He wants to be a priority to someone. How could we have missed this? From cover to cover, from beginning to end, the cry of God's heart is, "Why won't you choose Me?" It is amazing to me how humble, how vulnerable God is on this point. "You will . . . find me," says the Lord, "when you seek me with all your heart" (Jer. 29:13). In other words, "Look for me, pursue me -- I want you to pursue me." Amazing. As Tozer says, "God waits to be wanted. ↗

— John Eldredge

#god #love

I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him. ↗

— Yann Martel

#jesus #religion #life

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#cody-coleman #karen-kingsbury #life

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'. ↗

— Mary Daly

#christianity #etymology #feminism #life #patriarchy