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You’ve got choices, like any other creature. You can stumble down that road, pretending you can’t help it. You can curl up and die of regret and sorrow for what you’ve done. Or you can get up and fight, even though the battle might be lost.-Finn ↗

— Kersten Hamilton

#inspirational

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christ #christianity #cross #excess-love #god

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#gods #humanism #humanity #hypocrisy #hypocrites

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #irritation #life #mistakes #motivational

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that? ↗

— St. Bonaventure

#christianity #inspirational #knowledge #life #religion

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours. ↗

— Max Lucado

#confession #humility #inspirational #jesus #inspirational

When we search for "ourselves" in the eyes of others, we have imprisoned our own-selves in believing that our self-worth is nothing unless others validate who we are. Unless we approve of whom we are, what we are, and what we are capable of doing as an individual, only then we will have released "ourselves" from our own imprisonment. We are in charge of our own life's destiny and what we do and become can only be validated by our accomplishments and failures; not by what others may think of us. ↗

— (Dahveed) D. A. Isley

#wisdom #inspirational

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself ↗

— Lois Lowry

#inspirational #loved-this-part-in-the-story #the-giver #inspirational

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain. ↗

— Tara Brach

#buddhist #inspirational #radical-acceptance #inspirational

Let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons. ↗

— María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

#mistakes #puns #inspirational