#far

I brought out the most powerful tool I had in my arsenal. "If you resist," I said into Reyes's ear, "I'll be forced to Taser you." He looked at what I had in my hand. "That's a phone." "I have an app. You'll probably experience nerve damage. Slight memory loss. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#reyes-farrow #taser-app #experience

Take God at His Word – because winning the battle doesn't require physical brawn, but spiritual brains! ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#inspirational #spiritual-warfare #faith

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#calamity #called #clearly #considered #death

When we are born into God’s family through our faith in Jesus, God gives us the capacity or capability to live as his children. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#faith

There’s no need to pay your child’s hospital bills. When the state dissolves kinship ties, everyone will be covered under one family plan. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #medical #socialism #welfare #family

Raised on a cotton farm in rural Georgia, as many white/negro families did to make a meager living, my daddy had a saying. 'All a poor man has is his good name and good credit. God help him if he looses either of those.' I still believe that. ↗

— Susan Ethridge

#farm #family

Giggity, giggity. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#macfarlane #seth-macfarlane #family

Sure, we thought the acres That we tilled were sacred, But how could we have known That wheat can haunt like ghosts ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#family-farm #poem #poetry #sherman-alexie #short-poems

God does not have grandchildren, and so it does not matter if you were—or weren’t—born into a Christian family! The fact that your parents are Christians is simply irrelevant. You must decide for yourself and acknowledge that you are a helpless sinner, after which you must personally accept the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross. You must then invite Jesus into your heart as your personal Savior and Lord. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#death

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#pride #welfare #family