#eli

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399) ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#beauty

Every time I have a bad day, I'll just find a corner, bring out my book and then everything starts to feel better. ↗

— Wency June Z. Libot

#feeling-better #inspirational #reading #inspirational

Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known. ↗

— Les Miserables

#hiding #inspirational #secretive #inspirational

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#religion #change

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

#change #truth #change

Things don't always turn out the way we plan, but don't ever let what you haven't done eclipse all the good you have done and are doing. ↗

— Ardeth G. Kapp

#inspirational

When the challenges of mortality come, and they come for all of us, it may seem hard to have faith and hard to believe. At these times only faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement can bring us peace, hope, and understanding. Only faith that He suffered for our sakes will give us the strength to endure to the end. When we gain this faith, we experience a mighty change of heart, and like Enos, we become stronger and begin to feel a desire for the welfare of our brothers and sisters. We pray for them, that they too will be lifted and strengthened through faith on the Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ. ↗

— Robert Beverly Hale

#religious #change

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#counseling #jesus-christ #change

you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #change

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed. ↗

— Libba Bray

#change #love #rebirth #change