#ration

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

People can be, or can pose as, the enemies of God, but God will never be the enemy of any person. It is the terrible advantage children sometimes have over their fathers (and mothers). ↗

— Raniero Cantalamessa

#faith

Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#inspirational #faith

With that in mind, I try to imagine the greatest gift I could've given my father. And as sleep descends on me, the answer seems strangely clear: my faith in his idols. That was what he wanted all along - to feel that we were united by something permanent, to know that as long as he and I believed in the same thing, we would never be apart. ↗

— Ian Caldwell

#faith

When the sum of our faith and humility is sufficient, it reaches a type of spiritual critical mass and hope is fostered and grows. A willing heart emerges which generates the ability for us to submit to the process of recovery. ↗

— Roger Stark

#recovery #faith

The key to your happiness is to...own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. [Otherwise] you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#family

No one is fearless, that's impossible. But learning how to control your fear, that's something even your Stif family should learn how to do. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#so-true #tobias-eaton #family

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. ↗

— Chief Seattle

#family #family

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of par- ents to children than by those of children to parents. Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family meals where the father or mother treated their grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered to any other young people, would simply have termi- nated the acquaintance? Dogmatic assertions on mat- ters which the children understand and their elders don't, ruthless interruptions, flat contradictions, ridicule of things the young take seriously some- times of their religion insulting references to their friends, all provide an easy answer to the question "Why are they always out? Why do they like every house better than their home?" Who does not prefer civility to barbarism? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#civility #generation #love #parenting #family

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around. ↗

— Jerry L. Lewis

#growth #inspirational #love #motivation #relationships