cling to what is good

Pursue Christ.  Pursue excellence. I don't believe in matching coffee mugs. I swing when I'm sad.

[jspark3000]

Hey: let’s have room in our heart for people who are “behind” or stuck or struggling or messed up. Not everyone is paced at your tempo. Not everyone can just change at the drop of a hat. Please do not judge what doesn’t make sense in your three lb. brain. It might be something you’d never struggle with, but this other human being does, and you don’t have to understand to love them. Just love them. Do not coerce a therapeutic ideology that rushes someone into an idealistic mirage. This will kill them. I get this wrong too, and I regret every moment I’ve dragged a friend into a forced epiphany. Be patient, be there, be engaged, and be at ground level.

J.S. Park (via jspark3000)

[themotivationjournals]

There are a few things in life so beautiful they hurt: swimming in the ocean while it rains, reading alone in empty libraries, the sea of stars that appear when you’re miles away from the neon lights of the city, bars after 2am, walking in the wilderness, all the phases of the moon, the things we do not know about the universe, and you.

Beau Taplin, “And You” (via themotivationjournals)

[themotivationjournals]

If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.

Ruthie Lindsey (via themotivationjournals)

[thelovejournals]

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

Emily Haines  (via thelovejournals)

[hockeylesbians]

They cheered for the baby and booed everyone else. This is the greatest thing 

(i saw this on twitter but hadn’t seen it on tumblr so i needed to post it. pls watch this)

[penguinsbest]

bringing this back because everyone needs an entire arena of fans cheering for a baby

[noorshirazie]

each blessing begs to be noticed while we are so busy dwelling on dissatisfaction.

Noor Shirazie (via noorshirazie)

[wnq-anonymous]

Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

Mandy Hale (via wnq-anonymous)

[gorillafear]

the Scandal that is Grace.

[gorillafear]

There's a difference between playing small out of insecurity and being small for the sake of something bigger than you.

Hannah Brencher

[gorillafear]

“So what do you want your life to really be about?” Your life is only a blink long —and then you wake up to the forever that your life chose.

Ann Voskamp

[yesdarlingido]

May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may boldly apply the truth of Christ and love as he loved from deep within your heart. May God bless you with holy anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for peace, justice and freedom and demonstrate that true peace comes only in Christ. May God bless you with the gift of tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, or the loss of all that they cherish, so that you might comfort them and, in so doing, point them to the Great Comforter, Jesus Christ, the only One who truly transforms sorrow into joy. May God bless you with enough faith to believe that you really can make a difference in this world, so that you are able, with God’s grace in Christ, to do what otherwise could not be done.

A Franciscan Blessing adapted by Dr. Lindsay Fikkert (via yesdarlingido)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.

Neil Gaiman (via

onlinecounsellingcollege

)

Every day.

(via submissiveinclination)

[jspark3000]

I see love in your words, but I want to hear love in your voice.Pretty poetry does nothing for me here, in the dirt, in the earth, at my worst.Love will cost you more than a pen in motion. Love means sleeves rolled, hands open, to close in.

J.S. Park (via jspark3000)

[craigtowens]

We often pray to be delivered from afflictions, and even trust God that we will be. But we do not pray for Him to make us what we should be while in the midst of the afflictions.

Lettie Cowman (via craigtowens)

[thelovejournals]

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via thelovejournals)

[holytemple]

[wordsnquotes]

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat. (via wnq-writers)