#livin

With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#spiritual-living #death

The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #hope #death

Your life is your choice, so make it worthwhile ↗

— Wennie Lin

#life-and-living #life-lessons #inspirational

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#fantasy #fearless #fears #had #half

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#family #just #life #living #making

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#america #born #dad #diplomat #i

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#come #consumer #criticism #culture #down

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#ago #car #cottage #edge #i

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#also #always #being #cyberspace #i

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure. ↗

— Dianne Wiest

#living #make #money #pressure #theater