Spiritual Journey

Dedicated to those who identify as LGBTQIA+ and Christian and who may struggle with this identification due to shame, guilt, others' ignorance and lack of support. Know you are loved and not alone.

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can.

Marisha Pessl

[latenights]

Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people. 

[purplebuddhaquotes]

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Steve Maraboli

[purplebuddhaquotes]

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. And behold, then this ghost fled from me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.

Beau Taplin

[worshipgifs]

[purplebuddhaquotes]

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

Andrea Gibson

[bisexualchristian]

Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields ... Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

Mary Oliver

[bisexualchristian]

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

[bisexualchristian]

There’s power in love to help and heal when nothing else can. There’s power in love to lift up and liberate when nothing else will. There’s power in love to show us the way to live.

Bishop Michael Curry

[bisexualchristian]

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

Nikki Giovanni

[bisexualchristian]

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Rosa Parks

[bisexualchristian]

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

Fred Rogers

[bisexualchristian]

My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.” And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.”

Psalm 27:8

[bisexualchristian]

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

Winona LaDuke

[bisexualchristian]

There is a difference between being strong and having courage. People that are strong change nothing by putting up with stuff. People that have courage change everything because they choose not to put up with stuff.

Shannon L. Alder, Never or Forever

[bisexualchristian]

All struggles against oppression in the modern world begin by redefining what had previously been considered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.

Seyla Benhabib