#orc

Ah, the Saved...what happens to them is best described as the opposite of a mirage. What seemed, when they entered it, to be the vale of misery turns out, when they look back, to have been a well; and where present experience saw only salt deserts, memory truthfully records that the pools were full of water. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#force #sex #life

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#divorce #faithfulness #inspirational #love #marriage

What is missing in our time is not the willingness of God to act in biblical ways, but the willingness of his people to believe he is still the God of the Bible—and to act on that faith. To throw away fear, to stride against common wisdom, to risk all that we have and all that we are so we may follow only our simple belief that the God of the Scriptures is still alive and that he will still do what he says in his Word. ↗

— Wes Moore

#quotes #faith

We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good! ↗

— Marilynn Dawson

#christian-living #divorce #faith #faith-journey #faith-walk

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#force #human-spirt #relentless #faith

They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis? ↗

— Richard Ford

#divorce #family #parents #family

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline. ↗

— Amber Garibay

#divorce #dysfunction #family #family

Well, here were the ugly facts. She had no mad-ninja-skillz to rely on and her family didn’t know where she was. She didn’t know where she was. The only way she was leaving was if this creature allowed it. ↗

— Danielle Monsch

#gargoyles #paranormal-romance #sword-and-sorcery #family

Step-parents, those fairy tale villains, Have been given a bad name. They're easy targets. When the family goes awry How easy to blame them. I was blessed by the right steps... ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#families #growing-up #step-parents #family