#livin

We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering? ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#faith #faith

No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned. ↗

— Leigh LaValle

#freedom #inspirational #life-and-living #freedom

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked” (Luke 6:35). ↗

— Michele Woolley

#christian-living #faith #favor #hope #self-esteem

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#life-and-living #religous #faith

To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#leap-before-you-look #leap-of-faith #leaps #life #living-life

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. ↗

— Owen D. Young

#does #earn #fulfill #ideal #living

A good half of the art of living is resilience. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#living #resilience #art

‎All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ↗

— Henry Havelock Ellis

#life #living #art

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#living #mystery #witness #art

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#eternity #living #memory #life