#su

Wearing a cloak is on Rose's list of the thousand things she hates most. The problem is that each of the thousand problems is ranked number one. 'But Dr. Rannigan says you must and anyway, it hardly weighs a thing, it's so full of holes.' I swung mine round my shoulders. Rose hates any bit of clothing that constricts, but I say Chin up and bear it. Life is just one great constriction. 'Ventilated,' I said, 'that's the word. Our cloaks are terrifically ventilated. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#clothes #persuasion #life

Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#god #holy-spirit #jesus #miraculous #life

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him. ↗

— Roman Payne

#men #pleasure #polygamy #roman-payne #widows

Be the one, be worthy. ↗

— Elsie Chapman

#success #life

In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#hope #jesus #life #life

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#benefit-of-the-doubt #everyone #life #truth #world

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#gave #hardly #her #life #made

At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#jesus #sinner #the-ragamuffin-gospel #life

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#consciousness #crisis #evolution #nature #survival

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#success #life