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Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#high-school

If you have put your faith in Christ and have spent significant time in the Word of God, the tough times can be like a magnet that draws you to the Lord Jesus. ↗

— David Jeremiah

#inspirational-quotes #faith

Ooh, Snowberry, you were right,” one of them said, wrinkling her nose like she smelled something foul. “She does reek of a dead pig in the summer. I don’t know how Mab can stand it.” Clenching my fists, I tried to keep my cool. I was so not in the mood for this now.God, it’s like high school all over again. Will it never end? These are ancient faeries, for Pete’s sake, and they’re acting like my high school pom squad. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#meghan #snowberry #high-school

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#theology

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. ↗

— Karl Barth

#study #theology

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#faith #inner-work #unemployment #faith

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology. ↗

— Halldór Laxness

#theology

You see Jesus wrecked my life ↗

— Katie J. Davis

#christianity #faith #jesus #missionary #faith

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#encouragement #encouragement

A Quote from Monty's journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. "I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand. ↗

— J.D. Winston

#historical-fiction #inspirational #literary-fiction #love-story #spiritual