#er

I twisted my arm to curl him behind me and he unfolded there, the two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#mara-dyer #noah-shaw #couples

Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#sovereignty-of-god #works #faith

It all begins with goodness in the heart. ↗

— Bjorn Street

#faith #high-priest-master-ani #love #love-fellow-man #philosophical

There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#god #ignorance #intolerance #religion #faith

A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot blood. ↗

— Jackie Morse Kessler

#religion #war #faith

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#gossip #reputation #faith

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. ↗

— Alistair Begg

#christianity #materialism #theology #wealth #faith

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#encouragement #faith #hope #joy #prayer

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#nietzsche #recurrence #faith

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive. ↗

— Alice Walker

#life #sad #western #faith