#iri

I don't write poems to melt your heart. I write them, so our hearts can melt together. ↗

— Subhan Zein

#literature #love #poetry #relationship #spiritual-poetry

Now they return home, their bones bruised and their spirit slightly broken, but they’re still alive, and they will be well sometime soon. ↗

— Hannah Nikka Bryan

#home #inspirational #return #spirit #war

The riders, too, were like nothing she had ever seen before: ethereal men and women with pale visages, their cheekbones so sharply sculpted that she could see their skulls through translucent skin. They surrounded her and looked at her with steely blue eyes, each gaze an arrow staking her to that spot, and she could not close her eyes though the sight of them made her eyes burn as if she were looking at the sun. ↗

— Malinda Lo

#faeries #fairies #the-fair-folk #men

So learn how much you're worth to God. Revel in that information and then walk in it. ↗

— Michelle McKinney-Hammond

#spirituality #inspirational

The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this. In other words, we are here to love. ↗

— Sara Wiseman

#god #heart-opening #inspiration #intuition #soul

For the Christian, ignorance is not bliss; it is negligence and carelessness. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#spiritual-warfare #spirituality #inspirational

It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin. At the same time he causes them to cherish false conceptions of God so that they regard Him with fear and hate rather than with love. The cruelty inherent in his own character is attributed to the Creator; it is embodied in systems of religion and expressed in modes of worship. ↗

— Ellen G. White

#religion #satan #spiritual-warfare #worship #love

Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

Keep it simple and keep it real. The more basic we see our connection to God and Spirit, the easier it is to feel like you're a part of it. ↗

— Jim Fargiano

#inspirational #simplicity #spiritual #inspirational

I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers. I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals. ↗

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

#coffee #farmers #fashion #intellectuals #spirituality