#ship

Mom always said too much chocolate is like having too much love—you can't get enough-Geraldine Solon, Chocolicious ↗

— Geraldine Solon

#family #love #relationships #women #family

I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness. ↗

— Sharon Shinn

#family-relationships #friends #inspirational #family

There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to say, “My kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and I’m still proud of them.” Hold your head up and have a cappuccino. Take a trip. Hang your Christmas lights and hide colored eggs. Cry, laugh, then take a nap. And when we all get to the end of the road, I’m going to write a story that’s so happy it’s going to make your liver explode. It’s going to be a great day. ↗

— Dina Kucera

#drug-addiction #drugs #family-relationships #family

It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren't people we're related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult family relationship are, and this fuss just proves it. ↗

— Kristine Grayson

#family #relationship #romance #family

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. ↗

— Richard Wright

#relationships #experience

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#exigence #favor #friends #friendship #friendship

Chicks before dicks, and all that. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#humor #friendship

One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #john-paul-warren #leadership #motivational #sozo-life

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship. ↗

— Billy Graham

#worship #faith

Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy and sinless, He is a just judge of evil and the enemy of all disobedience. But a brother is sinful as we are. He knows from his own experience the dark night of secret sin. Why should we not find it easier to go to a brother than to the holy God? But if we do, we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God, whether we have not rather been confessing our sins to ourselves and also granting ourselves absolution...Who can give us the certainty that, in the confession and the forgiveness of our sins, we are not dealing with ourselves but with the living God? God gives us this certainty through our brother. Our brother breaks the circle of self-deception. A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows that he is no longer alone with himself; he experiences the presence of God in the reality of the other person. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#forgiveness #jesus #prayer #sin #spiritual-friendship