#rise

Seriously. Poor little me can deal with having mated a millionaire.” “Oh, you found someone else? With less money? ↗

— Vivian Arend

#money #surprise #money

...I don't ever want to feel that way. Feel as if there are no surprises left. The surprises make life worth living. Expecting nothing, accepting it all. Accepting isn't the right word. ACKNOWLEDGING it all. I suppose I'll just try to figure it out as I go or at least try to understand it. Or f***, just think about it. I'll face whatever comes my way... ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#keep-going #life #live #living #love

The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#pharisee #ragamuffin #nature

The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we could understand a group unique to the first century. Pharisaism is a poisonous weed that grows in every garden of orthodox religion. Pharisaism is every bit the threat to the orthodox today that it was then. ↗

— J.D. Greear

#error #heresy #pharisaism #pharisees #religion

Am I your dom, little rabbit?” “Yes.” Her red-brown brows drew together. “What’s wrong?” “Not a thing.” He gave her a faint smile, and his gravelly voice deepened. “I thought I’d tell you we’re getting married next month.” ~Nolan and Beth~ ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotic-romance #romance #romantic #romantic

Toys? When a man—a dom—said toys, he didn’t mean stuffed animals or baseballs. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotica #to-command-and-collar #baseball

One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine.  A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise.  A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#darkness #gratefulness #gratitude #light #richelle

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#judgement #pharisee #hypocrisy

I'm one of the freaks, the faggots, the geeks, the savages, rogues, rebels, dissident devils, artists, martyrs, infidels ... do we sit still under attack? or do we start pushing back? never back up never back down & FIGHT. ↗

— Otep Shamaya

#resist #rise #infidelity

You mean you’re not God? Nooo, say it isn’t so! ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotica #make-me-sir #erotica