#lis

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. ↗

— Erik Erikson

#child #children #failure #hateful #his

Continued pain is a signal to the body that there's something wrong, not right. Lucy Scarborough Nancy Werlin ↗

— Nancy Werlin (Author)

#love #pain #love

For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy; finally it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus. ↗

— St. Therese of Liseiux

#story-of-a-soul #love

The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and Rural, in the aftermath of the Second World War. To the United World College group it called for the establishment of a new kind of school where young people of all nations and backgrounds could live and learn together at the most formative period of their adolescence and so form those ties of friendship and understanding that would last them through their lives ↗

— Prince Charles HRH the Prince of Wales

#internationalism #united-world-colleges #uwc #youth #friendship

There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who believe in the Bible have never read it. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#superficiality #love

What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lisa. "I hear that from women a lot. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dreams

You sound so miserable.” “All novelists are. ↗

— Changdictator

#novelist #sad #love

Lady Rowena gasped in horror at the sight of Lord Raoul's majestic purple-helmeted warrior of love. ↗

— Katie MacAlister

#love

(Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#bitch #cale #fool #foolish #foolishness

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #love