#sin

The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts! ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#redemption #salvation #sin #the-cross #love

What I remember most is the searing sensation of looking into her eyes for the first time,eyes that would hunt me for the rest of my life ↗

— Jonathan Hull

#jonathan-hull #losing-julia #love-at-first-sight #love

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody. ↗

— Julia Child

#motivational #motivational

And I know when your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before. ↗

— Victoria Alexander

#kissing #love #love

I love you," he said. "Oh, dear God, Skye, you have to know it. And if you'd gone..." He saw Eriko lying dead. He felt the roughness of the rocks he had piled to make her grave. And he said good-bye to her. "Jamie," Skye said, shushing him as she put her hands on his head. "I—I...you're my brother in all things. And that how I love you, too." He froze as the meaning of her words penetrated the tidal wave of his emotions. "I'm not too late. I didn't tell you too late," he said desperately. She hesitated. And then she said, "Holgar." No. Jamie's world stopped. ↗

— Nancy Holder

#jamie #skye #love

Sweet kiss is as sweet the moonbeams kiss the sea. ↗

— N.G. Dian

#love-quotes-and-saying #love

Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#democracies #free-speech #money #opinion #organizations

Huh! It is only a pahari," said Kim over his shoulder. "Since when have the hill-asses owned all Hindustan?" The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#i-love-it #love

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#hope #love #religion #sin #love

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them. ↗

— Mae West

#men #sexuality #men