#in

I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can do. It is a terrible sickness. And I thank God for those who have forced me again and again toward a wartime mind-set. ↗

— John Piper

#fitting-in #materialism #mind-set #missions #money

We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability — and this, this is more than enough. ↗

— sera break

#diversity #inner-divinity #self-respect #spirituality #respect

I’m not sure sex qualifies as R and R, but it’s a compromise I can live with. ↗

— Shelby Morgen

#erotica #erotica-romance #sci-fi #science-fiction #science

They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take. ↗

— Blaize Clement

#mystery

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. ↗

— George Orwell

#censorship #george-orwell #ideas #media #news

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#pride #pride

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe. ↗

— P.S. Baber

#drama #fate #real #stage #theater

A hard man is nice to find ↗

— Tom Barry

#erotica #intrigue #suspense #drama

I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it. ↗

— Chris Wooding

#poison #drama

THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#cry-your-pants-off #drama #extreme-awesemnes #greek-mythology #heart-breaking