#lit

She knew his secret: for all his wandering, his independence and his unorthodox ways, he took his responsibilities very seriously. He even borrowed others' responsibilities, making them his own simply because he thought this sort of service was owed to those whom he loved. ↗

— Meredith Duran

#love

Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

I won’t break Cooper,” she pulled his head to hers with a hand tangled in his hair to whisper huskily in his ear; “I’ll even bend if you like. ↗

— Kelly Curry

#contemporary-romance #love #romance-novels #romances #love

Faith encompasses so much more than a denomination! ↗

— Deborah Brodie

#love #poetry-love-spirituality #spirituality #faith

... ir jo balsas pasidarė duslus nuo švelnumo. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#love #love

I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesn’t matter if homosexuality is a sin or not. In fact, it doesn’t matter if anything anybody else does is a sin or not. Because sin is a very personal thing! It always has been and it always will be! And it has nothing to do with love. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#charity #christianity #happiness #hate #hatred

Harper: You, the one part of the real world I wasn't allergic to. ↗

— Tony Kushner

#angels-in-america #drama #kushner #love #queer

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life. ↗

— Heidi Baker

#jesus #ministry #mission #love

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ↗

— John Donne

#inconstancy #instability #love #passage-of-time #precariousness

Everything is always a little surreal. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#everything #little #surreal