#world

There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks. ↗

— Susan E. Isaacs

#love #relationships #sin #love

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things. ↗

— C.A. Dawson Scott

#change #creative-vision #creativity #human-nature #world-community

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#amen #dear #god #lord #me

We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bible #brave-new-world #history #martyrs #old-testament

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#love

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#love #world #love

Love is contagious, so maybe if we spread it a little each day the whole world might get the disease. ↗

— Dana Noel

#the-world #love

There aren't many clean places left in this dirty world of ours. ↗

— Harry Bernstein

#dirty-world #love

Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God. ↗

— J.D. Greear

#devotion #gifts #god #gospel #heart

She kept her hand up in a victory salute. She had done the right thing. There had been no running away this time. She had faces the monsters and she had saved the people she loved. There wasno fear anymore. Just joy. She had won. ↗

— Rhiannon Frater

#love