#cross

..nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#eva-tramell #gideon-cross #reflected-in-you #change

To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#pharisees #righteousness #sin #the-cross #men

It avails not, time nor place--distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd, Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd, Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried, Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#men

For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#crossroads #hope #inspiration #lessons #life

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#jesus #miracles #skepticism #the-cross #forgiveness