#from

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#freedom #freedom from #freedom of religion #provides #religion

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason. I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#conflict #empathy #erich-fromm #humility #love

The Christian who, by God's grace, learns to confess the Lord Jesus in circumstances which might normally be calculated to silence him, is a Christian whose life is a tremendous challenge to other people. ↗

— Alan Redpath

#learning-to-live #beauty

this is not the end. this inst even the beginning of the end, but perhaps it is the end of the beginning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#beauty

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#love

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. ↗

— Rick Warren

#growth #inspirational #learning-from-mistakes #past #change

...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning... ↗

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

#descriptive-prose #dystopia #from-review #paranormal-romance #post-apocalyptic

I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my work, and so I write for them, and for my own pleasure, and try not to brood too much over those who have different tastes. And I have written enough books now that I know the self-doubt and the anxiety are part of the creative process, and drive me to keep trying to do better, and keep me from becoming too cocksure about my writing, which is a form of creative death. ↗

— Kate Forsyth

#writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #death

Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#discovering-who-you-are #feeling-alone #finding-yourself #happiness #happiness-comes-from-within

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-quotes-from-classic-books #forgiveness #healing #inspiration #positive-inspiration