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I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#experiences #life #materialism #money #spending

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#humility #prayer #surrender #faith

Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending. ↗

— George Sheehan

#happy-ending #running #wisdom #experience

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#friendship #faith

Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#love #faith

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203) ↗

— Janice Hanna

#enduring #faith #persistence #prayer #faith

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #egocentrism #philosophy #self-perfection #self-surrender

Good works" are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ--whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2). ↗

— W. Ian Thomas

#dependence #faith #good-works #jesus-christ #living-sacrifice

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#faith #materialism #self-sufficiency #temptation #wealth

A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you. ↗

— M.J. Chrisman

#christianity #fantasy #fiction #inspirational #m-j-chrisman