#hang

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#paul-david-tripp #people #principles #redeemer #redemption

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#change

But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm dead and in a box in the dark dark ground, and all my various souls have died and I am nothing but insensible bones, something in the marrow will still feel yearning, desire persisting beyond flesh. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#change

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor! ↗

— George Eliot

#change

Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed. People may still feel lonely even among the crowd. ↗

— Toba Beta

#loneliness #state-of-feeling #change

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#change

Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy. ↗

— Elle Casey

#change

It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites -- others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#emotion #feelings #glad #inspirational #change

when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#individualism #individuality #change

The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#spirituality #change