#nit

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us. ↗

— Alistair Begg

#dust #god #monster #sinners #theology

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ↗

— Bahá'u'lláh

#love #religious #unity #virtues #love

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#chimera #love

Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#forever #love #purpose #love

A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#love #love

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#humor #philosophy #humor

Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#humor #insanity #myth #sanity #humor

From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #mission #pg-wodehouse #writing #humor

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#insanity #turnip #humor

riley: give me a romantic comedy any day. rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? riley: takes one to know one, bro. ↗

— Keri Arthur

#humor #keri #masculinity #rhoan #riley