#tru

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions. ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#confession #creeds #god-s-word #neglect #oppression

There is no animal more invincible than a woman, ↗

— Loretta Chase

#inspirational #truth #inspirational

Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine society. The examination of hatred is a terrible thing. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dreams

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed... ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#courage #dream #fairy-tale #happily-ever-after #haunting

Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#love-struck #romance #love

A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#dream #nurture #truth #dreams

Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores. ↗

— David Mitchell

#dreams

You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate - were anything can happen. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#dreams #happen #persistence #true #dreams

When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in daylight. ↗

— Victoria Lamb

#paranormal-romance #witches #witchstruck #dreams

Abstaining from sex, hitting the books, and wearing loose-fitting clothes are common ways that girls try to molt their "slutty" image. But more often their shame leads them to self-destructive behavior. They become willing to do things that they wouldn't have dreamed of doing before they were scandalized because they now feel they have so little to offer. Some girls do drugs or drink to excess in an attempt to blot away their stigma. Others become depressed and anorexic. And others think so little of themselves that they date boys who insult or beat them. ↗

— Leora Tanenbaum

#bullying #reputation #self-destruction #sexuality #slut-shaming