You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.
One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
I'm a big foodie, I do a lot of yoga - I love yoga - I love running. . . I just enjoy being really active, and traveling.
So many other people are saying #NotMyPresident [on Donald Trump].
The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.
but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.