#ray

God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then); the devil is a deceiver). The devil tempts us to cavalier pride before we sin and worrisome despair afterward, since pride and despair both separate us from God, and anything that separates us from God is the devil's friend and our enemy, while anything that brings us close to God is the devil's enemy and our friend. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#evil #faith #god #prayer #sin

We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#god #joy #love #prayer #faith

Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #ya #family

You’re my sister,” he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”—he laughed soundlessly and without any humor—“to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace #family

No more. The yin fen has taken so much from me: my family, the years of my life, the strength in my body, the breath in my lungs. It will not take from me this too: the most precious thing we are given by the Angel. The ability to love. I love Tessa Gray. And I will make sure that she knows it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #family

What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you have loved me?" Clary was very glad she had put her cup down, because if she hadn't, she would have dropped it. Sebastian was looking at her not with any shyness or the sort of natural awkwardness that might be attendant on such a bizarre question, but as if she were a curious, foreign life-form. "Well," she said. "You're my brother. I would have loved you. I would have...had to. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#family #jonathan #love #family

Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone... ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love #pray #family

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#positivity

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict. ↗

— Erwin W. Lutzer

#reconciliation #family

I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it. ↗

— Billy Ray Chitwood

#emotions #faith #family #love #quotes