#eli

You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #death

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#religion

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance! ↗

— Max Lucado

#heaven #religious #death

Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#melissa-de-la-cruz #witches-of-east-end #death

At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#death

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#religion #death

I've seen the way you've been looking at me. Don't bullshit me, Pat. I live in the addition around back, which is completely separate from the house, so there's no chance of my parents walking in on us. I hate the fact that you wore a football jersey to dinner, but you can fuck me as long as we turn the lights out first. Okay? ↗

— Matthew Quick

#life #loneliness #sex #life

The line of communication between God and man is always open unless broken by man himself. We are, as it were, always in the presence of our Father in Heaven. Through His Holy Spirit, God is with us always and everywhere. ↗

— John Andreas Widtsoe

#communication

Sometimes, inflexibility creates a callus, scarring over all the bitterness and disappointment improperly, and there is no honest way to break that silence or that infinite distance, not even in death, not even in memory. ↗

— Víctor del Árbol

#relationships #resentment #death

Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister’s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I’ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#griffinlordsexy #notorious-pleasures #communication