#iri

Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, 'I'm not being fed,' he replies, 'I'm prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself. ↗

— Jon Acuff

#christians #funny #inspirational #spiritual-growth #funny

Kate giggled. “Excellent choice.” “I always make excellent choices.” “I don’t know about that.” “Of course I do. I picked ye, didn’t I? ↗

— Whitney K.E.

#love #romance #romance-funny #romance-love #romance-novels

You and I were never meant to be together, but we are. Our pairing is not unlike two electrons ignoring natural laws in order to orbit one another. Life now defies reason—quirky but beautiful. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#love #pairing #relationship #richelle #richelle-goodrich

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did." I frowned, "What's that?" "Homework. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #rose #spirit-bound #vampire-academy #vampires

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#irish #song #war #humor

The link between the spirit and the mind is the deep heart". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#mind #mind-body-spirit #r-alan-woods #spirit #r-alan-woods

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick. ↗

— Max Lucado

#heaven #holy-spirit #kansas #wizard-of-oz #love

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. ↗

— Hafiz

#personal-growth #spirituality #transcendence #transformation #personal-growth

One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves. ↗

— Anne Hill

#spiritual-growth #spirituality #teachers #spiritual-growth

All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief. ↗

— Nathalie M. Leblanc

#fairies-faeries #fantasy #magic #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-fiction