#hea

A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3. ↗

— John Flavel

#heaven #knowledge #puritans #salvation #life

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#knife #life #love #life

Life surprises at every turn But it just wants you to learn You can't dictate how it should play For it will still take you by sway And when it does, learn to just be For it can see what you can't see Find your happiness wherever you are Stuck in muck but gaze at the stars ↗

— Laxmi Hichkad

#life

... to be in any sort of relationship where you do not express yourself, simply to keep the peace, is a relationship ruled by one person and will never be balanced or healthy. ↗

— Bronnie Ware

#healthy-relationships #relationship #life

I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#mental-health #mental-illness #life

Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ↗

— Gao Xinjian

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

What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach his destination more than anyone else on the bus, yet he lacked the capacity to ride without getting kicked off. Maybe he reached the hospital eventually, and maybe he was connected with social workers and housing specialists who will help him transform his life. But I fear he got on another bus, and another bus after that, without going anywhere at all. ↗

— Susan Nielsen

#going-nowhere #healthcare #hospital #mental-illness #mentally-ill

Starfall in the sky as a result of anybody’s Fall here below? ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#fall #heaven #life #sin #stars

Life doesn’t just happen to you. You react to it, and you are not forced to react the way you do. Your heart determines your reactions. ↗

— Justin Holcomb

#life-and-living #life

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul! ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#grace #heart #light #love #purity