August 2012
“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter...”
– Elisabeth Elliot, These Strange Ashes (via smilingatthefuture)
“If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live...”
– C.S. Lewis (via iammeanttolive)
“Putting off holiness until tomorrow means that the devil has won today.”
– Mark Hart (via chin-upp-buttercup)
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(via desertmanian)
I like being alone.
burnkidburn:
I like drinking coffee alone, and reading alone.
I like riding the bus alone, and walking home alone.
It gives me time to think, and set my mind free.
I like eating alone, and listening to music alone.
But when I see a mother with her child;
A girl with her lover;
Or a friend laughing with their best friend;
I realize that even though I like being alone,
I don’t fancy being...
“Say you’re in love, and you get a note from that special person, you wouldn’t...”
– Glen Fitzjerrell (Unka Glen) on episode 30 of the Say That podcast
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(via thebridgechicago)
“You’ve probably heard some guy say this: “I will clean my act up when I find the...”
– Brandon Andersen (via hislivingpoetry)
“Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.”
– Charles Spurgeon (via martelthechristianrapper)
The awkward moment when you're licking your lips...
sodamnrelatable:
You:
Them:
“If I had not grown up in Nigeria, if all I knew about Africa were from popular...”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via itssaraho)
My Journey Home: The Gospel is not about self; it... →
amartyrschallenge:
This isn’t about you. This isn’t about your health, riches, reputation, success, real estate, the car you drive, the clothes you wear, or anything else you can find in this world. He died so that your spirit may find everlasting life. You have to be willing to give up …
rudyfrancisco:
We will never be accepted for who we are until we allow ourselves to be ourselves without apology
“I fall in love with people’s passion. The way their eyes light up when they talk...”
– (via sweetmanipulations)
“Just because you are praying doesn’t mean you are praying in faith. Faith starts...”
– (via jeffreymanu)
“But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus...”
– Philippians 3:20-21 ESV (via learninganapauo)
“Jesus said, ‘Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. But...”
– John 4:13-14 (via martelthechristianrapper)
“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will – either by having nothing happen...”
– Paulo Coelho (via we-are-meant-to-thrive)
Deliberately sinning is like scratching a mosquito...
You know you’re better off just not touching it but it’s so tempting.
So you scratch it that one time and it feels good.
But that feeling is temporary and it starts to hurt so you scratch it again and again
until it becomes red and swollen. Even then you feel like you have to keep scratching it because once you stop, you start to feel the pain..
When you get tired of scratching it,...
