#eli

A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#suicide #inspirational

Those who know you don’t need explanations, those who don’t won't believe you ! ↗

— Chris Geiger

#explanations #inspirational #life #inspirational

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian. ↗

— D.L. Moody

#christianity #religion #men

It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship. ↗

— Ellen G. White

#religion #satan #spiritual-warfare #worship #love

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#gender #religion #men

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#god #religion #men

Tuhanku Yang Maha Penyayang, ...Aku selalu merasa kurang, tak pandai, paling tak beruntung, dan terkadang batinku bertanya mengapa Engkau tak adil kepadaku. Aku sadar bahwa menyalahkan-Mu itu salah, dan karenanya Tuhanku maafkanlah aku. Tuhan, rahmatilah aku dengan kemandirian yang cukup untuk diriku sendiri, dan agar yang kulebihkan adalah untuk kebahagiaan sesama. Aamiin ↗

— Mario Teguh

#inspirational

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#political-philosophy #religious #inspirational

I would hesitate to use the word 'success' in the way many people do. I don't know that I would apply it to what I've done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal. To me success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. Success comes as you have confidence in yourself. Self-confidence is built by succeeding, even if the success is small. It is the believing that makes it possible. ↗

— Walter Knott

#confidence #inspirational #self-confidence #success #inspirational

When the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never because the dance with the devil might last you forever. ↗

— Felipe Andres Coronel

#religion #inspirational