#iri

Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world. ↗

— Holly Mosier

#mind-body-spirit #mindfulness #peace-of-mind #purpose #stress-management

How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#spirituality #christian-living

Inch by tantalizing inch, he brought the shirt up exposing his six pack abs. Kim’s mouth went dry as more and more of his chest was revealed to her view. Her tongue ran over her parched lips. All she could think about was licking something off those abs. It could have been poison and she would have gladly licked it and begged for more. ↗

— Marie Rose Dufour

#irish-rising #erotic-romance

The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him. ↗

— D.A. Carson

#spirituality #jesus-christ

He who works his land will have abundant food but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. ↗

— Proverrbs

#motivating #food

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#spiritual-growth #spirituality #spiritual-growth

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked ↗

— Rumi

#god #life #love #religion #spiritual

O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. ↗

— Anonymous

#god #holy-spirit #jesus #psalm #savior

There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person. ↗

— R.A. Torrey

#holy-spirit

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#god #law-and-gospel #spirit #freedom