#ria

Judgments are like a snowball. They stick to you. As time rolls along, the snowball becomes a boulder and then an avalanche. ↗

— John Kuypers

#happiness #marriage #non-judgment #relationships #faith

Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character? ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#gods-goodness #suffering #trials #faith

Neither Emma's tears nor her rage were enough to make Joseph monogamous, however; nor were the prevailing mores of the day. He kept falling rapturously in love with women not his wife. And because that rapture was so wholly consuming, and felt so good, it struck him as impossible that God might possibly frown on such a thing. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#plural-marriage #religion #faith

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#questions #suffering #trials #faith

That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#god-s-goodness #suffering #trials #faith

God is merciful cant we all be on the right track of faith but just using different roads? ↗

— Ali Al-Ahmed

#god #religion #sectarianism #faith

[Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely wrote, “Thank you, anyway, kind sir, but I am not going to marry you. ↗

— Kristiana Gregory

#faith

Women have married because it was necessary, in order to survive economically, in order to have children who would not suffer economic deprivation or social ostracism, in order to remain respectable, in order to do what was expected of women because coming out of "abnormal" childhoods they wanted to feel "normal," and because heterosexual romance has been represented as the great female adventure, duty, and fulfillment. We may faithfully or ambivalently have obeyed the institution, but our feelings - and our sensuality - have not been tamed or contained within it. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#marriage #norms #faith

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves. ↗

— Justin Davis

#faith #forgiveness #marriage #faith

I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster. ↗

— Avi Steinberg

#reading #librarians