#van

God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post. If you walk by a fence post and see a turtle on top of it, then you know someone came by and put it there. In the same way, God gives leadership according to His good pleasure. ↗

— Matt Chandler

#leadership #servant-leadership #leadership

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#light #mina #van-helsing #life

All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#bury #free #hide #incapacitate #memories

Hold on to this life, Emma," he whispered. "You're so much stronger than you think you are. ~ Evan ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#rebecca-donovan #the-breathing-series #life

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