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Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#faith #love #meaningful #regret #faith

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words. ↗

— St. Francis of Assisi

#faith #religious #faith

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#death #inspirational #life #moral-courage #real-life

It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#keep-a-quiet-heart #pain #troubles #life

Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control. ↗

— Dan Brown

#god #religion #science #faith

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. ↗

— Rick Warren

#life #religion #faith

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#belief #faith #follow-your-bliss #life #faith

Work without love is slavery. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #work #faith

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#pain #reality #faith

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving. ↗

— Lili St. Crow

#holding-on #leaving #left #loneliness #strange-angels