#ere

At first he didn't know where he was, whose voice it was. He must have been asleep. And waking suddenly, like that, you woke in a thousand different places that you'd never been. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

#dreams #wake #dreams

The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since childhood I have had a horror of vice and it was not without a quite understandable terror that I discerned the pleasure I felt in the embrace of this vigorous bush whose branches gradually mingled with my limbs, my hair and my looks. When one of its flowers came apart in my mouth, I could feel myself grasping the sorcerer in my arms in my turn. He was transformed into a torrent, and I was a barge, into desert and I was smoke, into a car and I was a road, into a man and I was a woman. 'What we are doing is very wrong,' he said and was off. ↗

— Robert Desnos

#pleasure #possesssion #sorcerer #terror #vice

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good. ↗

— John Corey Whaley

#outlook #pessimism #where-things-come-back #life

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable. ↗

— André Gide

#inspirational #specialization #faith

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#difference #faith #help #faith

Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#goodness-of-god #guidance #perseverance #sovereignty-of-god #faith

What I have learned from the year past is something about miracles--miracles of healing and answered prayer and unexpected happy endings. Each came quietly and simply, on tiptoe, so that I hardly knew it had occurred. All this makes me realize that miracles are everyday things. Not only the sudden, great good fortune, wafting in on a new wind from the sky. They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same. Every time something hard becomes easier; every time you adjust to a situation which, last week, you didn't know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or someone you love who was ill grows better; every time a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle. ↗

— Faith Baldwin

#miracles #faith

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do. ↗

— Keith Johnstone

#faith #peace-of-mind #serenity #faith

Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#authenticity #destiny #discovering-your-greater-calling #faith #faith-in-god

I almost laughed in spite of my nerves. What were the odds that two werewolves had the hots for me? Like I was some gigantic monster magnet. Was there a sign on my back that said, bite me, i'm available !? ↗

— Bree Despain

#dark-divine #grace-divine #monster-magnet #werewolves