❝It’s worth standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for what you believe in. Ultimately, if your intentions are good, you’ll prevail.❞
– Mike Ness, Social Distortion
❝Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can’t be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.❞
– C Joybell C
❝Jesus commanded us to love our neighbor, and our neighbor can be anybody. We are all created in the image of God, and we are all sacred, valuable creations of God. Everybody matters. To treat people differently based on who believes what is to fail to respect the image of God in everyone. As the book of James says, “God shows no favoritism.” So we don’t either.❞
– Rob Bell
❝When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.❞
– Alexander Graham Bell (via s-w-e-e-tserenity)
❝Don’t put all your hope and faith into something that could suddenly and easily disappear. And honestly, that’s almost anything. The only thing that will never go away, that will never fail you, is God and your faith in him.❞
– Bethany Hamilton (via coeur-volant)
❝Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.❞
– Harry Emerson Fosdick