Anne

Pray for those who don't even pray for themselves. One day, someone prayed for you when you couldn't pray anymore.

If even Moses, who spent his life leading Israel toward the Promised Land, didn’t get to enter it, why do we presume that God owes us certain things?

The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis

and if you ever feel unloved - look at the cross

"Don’t desire someone so deeply that you’re willing to disobey God just to keep them close."

and C. S. Lewis said: 'If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.'

"without God, what am I but a guide to my own destruction" Confessions, St Augustine

Your love is so ginormous the space would be jealous, so deep the ocean would feel shallow, so unaccountable all the books in the world would get speechless. Your love could take everything from me and, only in that moment, I would feel whole. "For God so loved the world..."

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination

When David faced Goliath, he didn't talk about how dangerous Goliath was. He talked about the greatness of God. Don't talk fear. Talk faith.