#nit

Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail. ↗

— Criss Jami

#burdens #explaining #explanations #frustration #goals

So be willing to wait. Only embrace a man who has a heart for God's purposes for his life and God's heart for you. Keep hope alive! ↗

— Michelle McKinney Hammond

#inspirational #relationship #inspirational

Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#disempowered #existence #inspirational #living #masterpiece

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#happiness #inspirational #life #love #inspirational

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity? ↗

— Luci Anneu Sèneca

#inspiration #nature #trees #inspirational

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to think as he would have them think, desire what he says is best, and do what he calls them to do even if their circumstances never get "fixed." It involves exposing hurt, lost, and confused people to God's glory, so that they give up their pursuit of their own glory and live for his. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#inspirational #ministry #inspirational

The weapons of our warfare can only be exercised in the place of prayer. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#inspirational #spiritual-warfare #spirituality #inspirational

Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#demons #eastern-orthodoxy #inspirational #prayer #inspirational

But what Tyler longed for was to have The Feeling arrive; when every flicker of light that touched the dipping branches of a weeping willow, every breath of breeze that bent the grass towards the row of apple trees, every shower of yellow ginko leaves dropping to the ground with such direct and tender sweetness, would fill the minister with profound and irreducible knowledge that God was right there. ↗

— Elizabeth Strout

#inspirational #inspirational