#les

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience. ↗

— Mark Galli

#faith

Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God? ↗

— Richard Puz

#faith-in-god #hate-crimes #hateful #haters #man

,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do. ↗

— Sara Shepard

#lies #life-lessons #truth #white-lies #friendship

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail. ↗

— Robert Shea

#behave #certain #competition #design #especially

I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure, assured, and happy we despise them for being inauthentic. Granted, the church shouldn’t be happy-clappy naive about life’s struggles. Plenty of psalms show us godly ways to be real with our negative emotions. But the church should not apologize for preaching a confident Christ and exhorting us to trust Him in all things. Church is not meant to foster an existential crisis of faith every week ↗

— Kevin DeYoung

#theology #anger

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? ↗

— Harry Shearer

#absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupts #does

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine. ↗

— Gail Carriger

#humor #soulless #family

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#force #human-spirt #relentless #faith

Even though I grew up two hours south, I had rarely ventured to Los Angeles. I soon learned that my dad wasn't totally off base when he said, "Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes." . . . "Remember. Family," he said. "Also, how do I get back to I-5? I hate this fucking city. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#family

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#family