#livin

How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#spirituality #christian-living

Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#greatness #self-consciousness #christian-living

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#prayer #christian-living

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#church #poverty #christian-living

If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#haters #life-and-living #friendship

No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#funny #hip-hop #horomones #in-the-moment #life-and-living

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be ↗

— Roald Dahl

#passionate-living #inspirational

I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole. ↗

— Courtney Schafer

#horse-shoes #life-and-living #life

There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life

As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, sour auras! The good thing is that if you don't want to be a lemon, you don't have to be! Just don't let those lemons rub themselves all over you! And you don't even have to save them! Let lemons be lemons! One of the most important things that I have ever learned, is that I don't have to save people. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #lemons #life-and-living