"dear reader,
do you know something?
those who keep asking the same question
really don’t want to hear the answer."
- from “unemployed” by Charles Bukowski (via monocled—misanthrope)
(via buynewsoul)
"But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in him but in myself and his other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error."
- St. Augustine (via christusexemplar)
(via loveistodismissyourfears)
"It was through Pride that the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind."
- C.S. Lewis (via faithsight)
(via loveistodismissyourfears)
"The (500) Days of Summer attitude of “He wants you so bad” seems attractive to some women and men, especially younger ones, but I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is. He develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl onto whom he projects all these fantasies. He thinks she’ll give his life meaning because he doesn’t care about much else going on in his life. A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person."
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt (via frmtheheights)
(via loveistodismissyourfears)
"I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter. Nine-tenths of the trouble with people generally is just here. Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord’s will, whatever it may be. When one is truly in this state, it is usually but a little way to the knowledge of what His will is."
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George Müller, Answers to Prayer
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I never remember, in all my Christian course, a period now (in March,1895) of sixty-nine years and four months, that I ever SINCERELY and PATIENTLY sought to know the will of God by the teaching of the Holy Ghost, through the instrumentality of the Word of God, but I have been ALWAYS directed rightly.
But if honesty of heart and uprightness before God were lacking, or if I did not patiently wait upon God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow men to the declarations of the Word of the living God, I made great mistakes.
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George Müller, Answers to Prayer
"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
- Susan Ertz, British novelist, 1894-1985
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
- Winston Churchill (via quotes-shape-us)
(via whygodmadegirls)
Wislawa Szymborska, “The Three Oddest Words”
(via thegraveyardpoets)
"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."
- George Orwell (via whimsicalele)
(via buynewsoul)
"The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference."
- Elie Wiesel (via booksandnerds)
(via sentencesandmoments)
