#mis

A trip to the cancer unit of any pediatric hospital will tell you that the Law of Attraction doesn't work. Some angels are so bright, brave and valiant that God gave them the hardest lives when they chose to come to earth. They don't need to pray to be saved because they already are. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#cancer #cancer-patients #children #circumstances #faith

God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him. ↗

— Hudson Taylor

#faith

It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#faith

I’d encourage Ann to cling to God’s character in spite of what her circumstances screamed. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#miscarriages #trials-of-life #faith

She believed in me. Where I had doubt and fear, she had faith. ↗

— Joanne Owen

#the-alchemist-and-the-angel #faith

As I speak for many in the budding new missional church world I have to share that I no longer judge the faithful fervent work of so many pastors who have pastored well but who struggle to find their place in this new world. They deserve to be honored instead of belittled. Without their legacy we would have nothing to build upon. ↗

— Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

#incarnational-communities #jesus #missional #faith

No need for apologies. ... it's good to question things, but you must have faith too. ↗

— Joanne Owen

#the-alchemist-and-the-angel #faith

If she had learned one thing from Rebecca it was that demonstrations of affection or even emotion were few and far between when it came to the Amish way of life. ↗

— Sarah Price

#love #faith

Dimitri is dead," she said. It was a statement, not a question, but she was looking to me for confirmation. I wondered if I'd given away something, some hint that there was still more to the story. Or maybe she just needed the certainty of those words. And for a moment, I considered telling them that Dimitri was dead. It was what the Academy would tell them, what the guardians would tell them. It would be easier on them...but somehow, I couldn't stand to lie to them—even if it was a comforting lie. Dimitri would have wanted the whole truth, and his family would too. "No," I said, and for a heartbeat, hope sprang up in everyone's faces—at least until I spoke again. "Dimitri's a Strigoi. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri #sad #strigoi #vampire-academy #family

To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in Washington DC. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #family #family-reunion #miserable #misery