#ration

Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#incarceration #sadness #family

Small fruit is better than big words. ↗

— Jerry L. Lewis

#family #inspirational #self-help #family

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #good #good-and-evil #inspiration #uniqueness

...and then I remembered this basic religious principle that God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it with his or her presence... ↗

— Annie Lamott

#inspirational #pain #faith

Joel Osteen Ministries God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen Joel Osteen Ministries God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen ↗

— Joel Osteen

#experience

Surrender to what is. let go of what was. have faith in what will be. ↗

— Sonia Ricotti

#inspirational #faith

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happiness #inspirational #faith

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect. ↗

— 'Abdu'l-Bahá

#inspirational #paris-talks #spirituality #faith

[Martin Luther King] said that little black boys and little black girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers. Then he reminded both those spectators before him and all Americans that this hope of his, this faith, was rooted in the promise of America. ↗

— Keith Ellison

#civil-rights #inspirational #politics #promises #united

The Lord never asks that we carry ourselves to the end, but that we exert faith enough to let Him lift us upon His shoulders to carry us over those treacherous paths. ↗

— N.T.

#faith