#is

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #infernal-devices #madness #misery #tessa-gray

Ticket and passport. We're crossing the border." "Oh. Sorry." Dan handed the conductor his ticket. "Grazie." "De nada," Dan said. "That's Spanish," Amy whispered. "No, it's whatever," Dan said. "I'm too tired to think. ↗

— Jude Watson

#spanish

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes ↗

— Robert Jordan

#war #fool

Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#wishes #wishes

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#emotions #feelings #god #obedience #possible

La felicidad es una bendición, pero generalmente es también una conquista. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#spanish #spanish

Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On the other hand, He may Allow you to fall into disobedience which happens to lead you to the right path. DISOBEDIENCE that teaches you HUMILITY is better than PIETY that fills you with VANITY and ARROGANCE. ↗

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

#obedience

There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. If we will be obedient and if we are diligent, our prayers will be answered, our problems will diminish, our fears will dissipate, light will come upon us, the darkness of despair will be dispersed, and we will be close to the Lord. ↗

— Robert D. Hales

#jesus-christ #obedience #prayer #understanding #obedience

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#intellectualism #reactions #seeing #understanding #judgment

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude ↗

— William Wilberforce

#christians #gratitude