#livin

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ↗

— Mark Twain

#around #first #go #here #living

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#eliminating #growing #lies #living #troubles

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#does #dying #itself #life #living

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#fact #films #i #i do #i love

I felt the fangs against my neck and knew I was going to die. It was horrible. I wanted to live so, so badly...but this was how it would end. With my last moments, I started to yell at Christian to run, but then the Strigoi above my suddenly lit up like a torch. He jerked back, and I rolled out from underneath him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I turned to Christian, who was crouched on the ground. "Wow," I said, helping him up. Obviously, he was the one who had saved me. "No shit," he said. "Didn't know I had that much power. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose #christian-living

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts ↗

— A.W. Tozer

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We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

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Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty. ↗

— Max Lucado

#max-lucado #nonfiction #christian-living

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human. ↗

— Rob Bell

#sexuality #christian-living

It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray. ↗

— Leslie Ludy

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