I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me every time - waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God - it changes me.
C.S. Lewis
(Source: 500daysofzyrah)
God’s word is not just to be heard and repeated, it is to be breathed, lived, and emulated with each action.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.
People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.
Steve Maraboli
As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshiping we are becoming.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Source: middlenameconfused)
(Source: conflictingheart)
….We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of us knows when the loveliest hour of our life is striking. It may be when we take Christ for the first time to that grey office in the city where we work, to the wretched lodging of that poor man who is an outcast, to the nursery of that pampered child, to that battleship, airfield, or camp…
Caryll Houselander (via middlenameconfused)
(Source: tenthousandangels)
