#god

Truth, love and God are all the same. For in them there is purity; In us there is separation into this and that." www.booksonspirituality.com ↗

— Gian Kumar

#love

It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly pessimistic - as if God no sooner saw two of His creatures happy than He stopped it ('None of that here!'). As if He were like the Hostess at the sherry-party who separates two guests the moment they show signs of having got into a real conversation. But it could also mean 'This had reached its proper perfection. This had become what it had in it to be. Therefore of course it would not be prolonged.' As if God said, 'Good; you have mastered that exercise. I am very pleased with it. And now you are ready to go on to the next. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god-s-will #grief #loss #mourning #marriage

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#love #love

‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it ↗

— Max Lucado

#inspirational #love #inspirational

This is your time. Make it count by dedicating your time to your Heavenly Father. ↗

— Kristen Oaks

#decisions #inspirational #trusting-god #inspirational

But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome-- so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.' 'God made you that, Aline. ↗

— Rafael Sabatini

#marriage #marriage

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#god #men

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#holy-spirit #men

The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I was no longer hoping that he would see me, wishing that he would work, or wondering if he would care. Instead, I knew that he would be at work in my marriage, and that somehow, someway, someday he would be glorified through our sufferings. ↗

— Tracie Miles

#god #hope #waiting #wish #marriage

One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns ... ↗

— Mario Puzo

#men