#ray

The purpose of life is to find your way back to a spiritual way of thinking and living—to be able to get past the physical stuff. ↗

— Wendy Higgins

#life

Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #life

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it. ↗

— Sara Gruen

#body #denial #life #mind #truth

She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-and-clary #life

the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#life

Sometimes, instead of being hurt, you should look at betrayal as a gift. It makes it that much easier to sweep it up and toss it out with the rest of the trash. And why is that you ask? Because trash starts to stink...and when it does, it has no more value in your life. ↗

— Donna Schoenrock

#hurt #life

But I was going to learn the hardest lesson in life: that those who are closest to you, always betray you first. ↗

— Susan Speranza

#life

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend. ↗

— Heather Brewer

#emotion

We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image. ↗

— Pope Theodoros II

#beloved country #country #egypt #god #her

Sometimes when we say "God is silent," what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in the blanks of the story we are creating. But with his own stories, the ones we live in, he is seldom silent. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#prayer #story #life