#hea

What they had wasn't ordinary, or subject to the ordinary rules of relationships and breakups. They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#relationship

Women destroy me. I allow them to. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#infidelity #machismo #male-and-female-relationships #masculinity #weakness

We like to think we’re in charge of our own lives, but we ain’t. ↗

— Moira Young

#laine-s-fave #heartache

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger. ↗

— Erica Jong

#god #health #mind #philosophy #religion

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#five-people-you-meet-in-heaven #foxhole #middle-of-a-big-war #orders #religion

The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for oneness with Jesus. The search for Jesus is bigger, deeper and agonizing. ↗

— W. Scott Lineberry

#healing #jesus #pain #religion #searching

Do you think there is heaven or hell? he signed. ‘I don’t know. Not in the Christian way, if that’s what you mean. I think people have a right to believe in whatever they want. I just don’t.’… If someone came in here and gave you positive proof, would you do anything different? She shook her head. ‘I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn’t know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes.’ (256) ↗

— David Wroblewski

#hell #home #mistakes #religion #religion

For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies; that is, to the old wives' fables in England concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#belief #catholic-church #fairies #heathen #materialism

Do you think heaven's like that? Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we're not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead. ↗

— Tim Dorsey

#religion #serge-storms #tim-dorsey #religion

The realm of God is dangerous. You must enter into it and not just seek information about it ↗

— Archbishop Anthony Bloom

#god #life #religion #wild-at-heart #religion