#tan

‎'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan. ↗

— Jana Oliver

#orangutans #supernatural #supernatural

Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this. At the sight, he himself was struck with amazement and his whole army also. ↗

— Eusebius

#church-history #constantine #orthodoxy #patristics #saints

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#fear #inspirational #life-lessons-spiritual-wonder #love #motivational-quotes

Love and accept everyone for who they are, for where they are in life. That is compassion. ↗

— Kristi Bowman

#compassion #love #life

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light. ↗

— Aaron Cohen

#eternal #happiness #light #love #quote

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#life #love #worth #life

As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better. ↗

— D. Morgenstern

#learning-from-mistakes #love #relationships #understanding-oneself-and-others #love

...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#stories #understanding #understanding-oneself #love

Part of her - unreasonable Anna- still loved him. Maybe she would never stop loving him. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#anna-and-abel #anna-leemann #love #love

And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter… Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold… that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle. ↗

— Alan Moore

#love