#eli

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#philosophy #religion #theology #life

We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days. ↗

— C.J. Mahaney

#religion #life

Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey. ↗

— Yann Martel

#religion #life

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. ↗

— Anatole France

#life

I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't. ↗

— Beth Gutcheon

#feel #ghosts #life #life

To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. ‘Phedre yields with a willow’s grace,’ he said softly. ‘And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#joscelin-verreuil #love #life

I rather spend every Sunday of my life hanging off a cliff to rescue someone than spend one more time sitting in a pew next to hypocrites that talk about what they will do to better themselves and the world when they get around to it. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#hypocrites #religion #service #life

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires. ↗

— John Eldredge

#christianity #life #men #religion #life

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again. ↗

— Tan Twan Eng

#loneliness #memory #perception #perspective #time

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#delirium #london #love #life