#inspirational

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#inspirational #ministry #anger

A weak person has no control over their anger...A stronger person has the strength to contain it. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#anger

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #love #paulocoelho #faith

Never lose faith in the end of your story. ↗

— Steve Gutzler

#faith

We have, by God's grace, been given another day to serve and love, laugh and learn, pray and ponder. Spring is ready to burst into the open air, and we are ready to embrace it. ↗

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

#religious #faith

For My Dad ~ "I miss you every day." Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it... you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#inspirational #mourning #death

After all, her motto is "Better to ask for forgiveness than permission. ↗

— Anna Banks

#forgiveness

Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#inspirational #survival #family

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#prophet #red #family

External influences create internal chaos. ↗

— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#inspirational #stepfamily #stepmother #family