#go

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#love #love

... you are lovely - God has painted every feature of your soul ... ↗

— John Geddes

#god #love #poetry #soul #love

I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow. ↗

— Catherine Fisher

#forgotten #hate #merlin #sorrow #love

No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#author #create #form #produce #richelle

If we are not being maligned, scandalizing those who still sleep in the church, then we are missing the incarnational call to love the world's most vulnerable, the world's exiled, the world's most wounded. Our concern should be what the poor and prostituted think of us, what the God of the universe thinks of us, not what those around us think of us. ↗

— Sarah Lance

#caring #church #compassion #excile #god

Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because we trust in a Savior. ↗

— Max Lucado

#christianity #religon #love

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bandwagon #compassion #culture #fads #flattery

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humility #penitence #righteousness #sovereignty #love

So asking you to take a moonlit walk with me, that would totally not work?" "What?" Again that glare. "Go away. Stop being an idiot. I don't even know you." "You're healing my little brother Bowie." "Yeah, that doesn't make us friends, kid." "So no moonlight." "Are you retarded?" "Sunrise? I could get up early." "Go away." "Sunset tomorrow?" -Sanjit & Lana ↗

— Michael Grant

#humour #lana #love #michael-grant #plague

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us. ↗

— John Ortberg

#kindness #love #love