#christ

I wish I could claim that I said this being an author, but alas I did not." -- I try to leave out the parts that people skip. — Elmore Leonard ↗

— Tommy Taylor

#christian #clone #fiction #mystery #thriller

I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart ↗

— Christina Perri

#christina-perri #lyrics #songs #lyrics

Appearances can be deceptive" he says quietly. "I'm anything but fine. I feel like the sun has set and not risen for five days, Ana. I'm in perpetual night here. ↗

— E.L. James

#deception

I hope that you see right through my walls I hope that you catch me 'cause I'm already falling I'll never let our love get so close You put your arms around me and I'm home ↗

— Christina Perri

#christina-perri #love #love

You know that first night when we stayed together here in the cabin? As sick as we were, there was no place on earth I would have rather been then here with you. ↗

— Tina Reber

#love

He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#love #love

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated. ↗

— John Howard Yoder

#politics #theology #warfare #theology

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if i did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist - in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless - I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice - was full of sense. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #morality #self-awareness #self-awareness

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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