As with all matters of the heart, the odds may not be in our favour but it is the only risk worth taking (Kaushik Ram, Hidden World: The Inside Story of the Soul)
Too many Christian TV and radio programs have been geared to please, entertain, and gain the favor of the world. The temptation is to compromise, to make the gospel more appealing and attractive
Too many Christian TV and radio programs have been geared to please, entertain, and gain the favor of the world. The temptation is to compromise, to make the gospel more appealing and attractive (Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes)
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn (Henry Ward Beecher)
All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities
All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities (Josi Ortega y Gasset)
Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming
Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming (Robert Tew)
So sweet and delicious do I become,when I am in bed with a manwho, I sense, loves and enjoys me,that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,so the knot of love, however tightit seemed before, is tied tighter still
So sweet and delicious do I become,when I am in bed with a manwho, I sense, loves and enjoys me,that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,so the knot of love, however tightit seemed before, is tied tighter still. (Veronica Franco, Poems and Selected Letters)
Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die
Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die (Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants)
I don’t deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts
I don’t deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts (Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief)
Service is the key to self-discovery of full strength – Lailah Gifty Akita
Service is the key to self-discovery of full strength – Lailah Gifty Akita
If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient
If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient (Craig D. Lounsbrough)