#hr

. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

Faith doesn't rely on odds or statistical data. God only requires that we have faith; the rest is up to him. ↗

— Nancy Stephan

#faith #inspirational #faith

To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own. ↗

— Sarah Arthur

#honor #religion #respect #dating

Encounter Jesus. Suffer with him to experience his life more fully. Be holy in your love for God and his church as God is holy in his love for you and his church. Imagine what awaits those who now walk by faith, when faith and hope give way to the fullness of love when Jesus appears, when faith becomes sight at the consummation of Jesus' union with his people at the marriage supper of the Lamb. ↗

— Paul Louis Metzger

#holy-in-christ #suffering #experience

It was the mutual study of the Spear and the significance of its legend and their strikingly opposite views about it which finally parted these inseperable friends -- the master musician (Wagner) and the cynnical philosopher (Nietzsche). A parting which led them both to experience a bitter and pathetic lonliness, and later a growing hatred and contempt for one another which spilled over into a stormy controversy to shatter the emerging Pan-Germanic mystic-pagan idealism to its very foundations. ↗

— Trevor Ravenscroft

#christianity #the-occult #experience

Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship. ↗

— jonathon acuff

#dating #humor #prayer #dating

There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#christian #humility #imperfection #teacher #experience

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#elements #important #listening #most #performing

The truth is that unless you feel worthy of your highest vision then you cannot possibly experience it. You must become aware that you are worthy. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#dreams

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#christianity #culture #environment #industry #nature