#ian

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#jill #jillian #rose #vampire #romantic

I like him." "Like or like? "Oh, there's a difference? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#lissa #vampire-academy #different

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day. ↗

— Tom Waits

#individuality #music #musician #non-conformity #humor

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#christianity #religion #die

I knew you were a badass," continued Adrian. "But I didn't realize just how much until I saw you dropping guardians out there." "Does that mean you're going to be nicer to me?" I teased. "I'm already nice to you," he said loftily. "Do you know how badly I want a cigarette right now? But no. I manfully suffer through nicotine withdrawal—all for you. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#nicotine-withdrawal #quitting-smoking #rose-hathaway #bad

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christ

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#christianity #god #heart #jesus #st-augustine

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time. ↗

— Francis Chan

#god #jesus #needs #pastor #wants

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #criticism #judgement #philosophy #spirituality

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#evangelism #jesus