#rin

Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse. ↗

— Julian Short

#inspirational

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation. ↗

— John Piper

#compassion #evangelism #giving #gospel #greed

And anyway, life's too short.... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #life

Its funny whenever people who have'nt seen me in years meet up with me again and they are surprised that I'm not as shy and quiet as I was in the past, I credit that to my years of drinking at bars and partys and conversing with people I would never useally talk to, it was then I relized that even without drinking I could still talk to people just as easy. But It is still a little funner with a few beers in me. ↗

— Kenny D. Eichenberg

#drinking #funny

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it? ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#acceptance #appreciation #conquer #consciousness #contentment

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms? ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#honesty #life #sharing #time #life

Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug. ↗

— Dash Shaw

#living #mothers #suffering #life

If you want to check someone's principles, give him authority .. Then have a seat & watch ↗

— أحمد عمارة

#life-lessons #principles #life

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#jane-seymour #katherine-howard #life

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cassandra-clare #clockwork-princess #death #dying #i-can-t-even