#ible

The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

We shouldn't go to the Bible to back up what we believe. We should look to the Bible to determine what we believe. ↗

— Jayce O'Neal

#christianity #leadership #leadership

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed. ↗

— John Paul Warren

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Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible. Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror. ↗

— Mike Norton

#can-t #chastisement #conqueror #discouragement #disorder

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. ↗

— Anonymous

#darkness #gospel #jesus #light #life

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us—and this is remarkable—the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea. ↗

— Rich Mullins

#life #scripture #life

Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. ↗

— Anonymous

#scripture #life

God doesn't need to punish us. He grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#life

...I finally went back to my seat in the second row and sat there doing what I've done throughout my professional life: I tried to think, first, how to make credible a somewhat extreme, if not outright ridiculous story, and, next, how, after telling it, to fortify and defend myself from the affronted who read into the story an intention having perhaps to do less with the author's perversity than with their own. ↗

— Philip Roth

#professional-life #to-fortify-and-defend-myself #life

But she never thought about the way Terrible looked, at least not that way. He hadn’t been ugly to her for months; he’d gone from just being a face she was familiar with to being a face she loved to look at, a face that made her….happy. Who gave a shit what anyone else saw when they looked at him, when they saw the crooked, many times broken nose, or the scars, or the jutting brow or thick jaw and heavy muttonchops? She knew what she saw, and that was all that mattered. Knew what was behind those hard dark eyes, and wanted it more than anything. ↗

— Stacia Kane

#terrible #love