#van

I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness," he breathed. "Not until the moment you touched me in your store. My life is violent and dangerous. Its dark and twisted and no place for someone like you. I have more people wanting me dead than I can count. They will stop at nothing, and you.." He ground his teeth before he spoke again. "You'll never want again for anything in your life. I swear it on what little bit of human soul I have left. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#life

If you ever think of takin’ off, if you ever get scared enough at what I do for a living that you decide you can’t hack it, then you best think again because unless what we have turns shit like everything else in my life, I’m not ever letting you go. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#life

Jules, I’ll tell you now what I would have told you at dinner if you’d been speakin’ to me. This,” he said, one hand dropping to my bottom and pulling my hips into his, one going up my back to press my torso to his chest, “is the sweetest thing I’ve had in my life and I haven’t even f**ked you yet. I never expected to get a chance at anything so sweet and now that I got it, I’m not gonna let it go. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#life

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#awesome #life

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#life

It's not adviseable to always go around doubting others all the time. However, it is logical. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic. ↗

— Michael Ayrton

#vanity #life

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation. ↗

— John Piper

#compassion #evangelism #giving #gospel #greed

It was cool to wake up knowing your day would include someone else in a way that was integral to life. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#relevant #life

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth. ↗

— Kathryn Kuhlman

#god #healing-evangelist #jesus #revivalist #life