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Here’s what I learned about life when we were going through that. We’re all human and mortal. We’re all going to suffer and die. But it’s how we are with each other during those times that proves God’s here with us.” He turned his hand over in mine and entwined our fingers. “He comes in through people. People who love us anyway. They jump right into the chaos with us and try to help us make sense of it. That’s what mercy is…it’s choosing to help, or forgive, or love even when it goes against all logic. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#faith #family-relationships #friendships #glass-girl #god

Nature" is another name for the miracles that are so commonplace in our lives that we take for granted and have grown used to seeing them. ↗

— Shalom Arush

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It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#self #self-awareness #faith

Meg,” he whispered. “It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this world, because there’s free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#christian #evil #faith #free-will #glass-girl

To believe in miracles in one thing...to know what miracle you want to manifest right now, and accept it, is another. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#inspirational #miracles #motivational #faith

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle. ↗

— Craig Groeschel

#faith #god #hope #miracles #faith

I want to own something that really reflects me as a person. Something like a mirror. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#mirror #funny

I really want to believe that when our Quiet Waters kids wake up in the middle of the night, scared, they’ll remember being in their bunks with John and Kate and Whit and me right there protecting them,” he said. “I hope we gave them that sense of belonging because I know there’ll be times in their lives when grasping at those bonds could mean the difference between making it and not. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#anxiety #children #dating #faith #fear

In any miracle, chase the causation back far enough and eventually you'll find yourself irrepressibly singing in praise of the marvelous goodness of God's creation. ↗

— Matthew Lee Anderson

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Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness and of His truth, as much a proof of His faithfulness and veracity, as the lives of any of the saints who have gone before? We do our Lord an injustice when we suppose that He wrought all His mighty acts, and showed Himself strong for those in the early time, but doth not perform wonders or lay bare His arm for the saints who are now upon the earth. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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