#christ

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. ↗

— Colossians

#christian #freedom #god #love #together

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey… ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#marriage #freedom

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. ↗

— Huston Smith

#christian #compassion #death #discipline #earth

When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#god #grief #jesus #religion #sorrow

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#christmas #completely #fails #had #kind

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#compassion #feelings #god #love #attitude

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new. ↗

— Russell Johnson

#any #away #become #christ #man

The best way to get rid of the negative thoughts is to crowd them out with something else bigger and more beautiful: worship of the One who holds everything in His powerful and capable hands. ↗

— Jocelyn Green

#inspirational #negative-thoughts #worry #beauty

I need a weapon,” Valkyrie muttered. “You’re an Elemental with a Necromancer ring, trained in a variety of martial arts by some of the best fighters in the world,” Skulduggery pointed out. “I’m fairly certain that makes you a weapon.” “I mean a weapon you hold. You have a gun, Tanith has a sword... I want a stick.” “I’ll buy you a stick for Christmas. ↗

— Derek Landy

#humour #skulduggery #stick #weapon #art

...to experience a furious disillusionment with ‘conventional’ politics, a bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My reply is that you should fucking well have been there, and felt it for yourself. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#experience