Heather of the Moore

quotes that make my heart feel warm and anything else I feel like reblogging lover of animals/books/travel/nature/knitting

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Lüneburg Heath, Germany by Evgenia Czech

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County Waterford, Ireland

Lighthouses don't calm storms. They don't stop the waves. But they show you where the shore is. They help you keep going.

~ Tanya Leigh Wood, 'Found', p.192

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Port Vila Sunset

Space-travel really has nothing to do with the matter. To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere. Those who do not find Him on earth are unlikely to find Him in space. (Hang it all, we're in space already; every year we go a huge circular tour in space.) But send a saint up in a spaceship and he'll find God in space as he found God on earth. Much depends on the seeing eye.

~ C.S Lewis, 'The Seeing Eye' in "Christian Reflections", p. 235

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Yangshuo County

What if every morning, every one of us burst out into our world wearing our happy face? Throwing a kiss to everyone we passed. Waving a greeting to everyone we meet. Assuring those whose lives we touch that God loves them. What if we became the happy face of our communities? At the grocery store; at the Post Office. Over the backyard fence. What if the radiance of our trust in God led people to say, "You know, I think everything's going to be okay"?

~ Don Jacobsen, 'Okay, All Together Now...', p. 81

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Eddie Echidna, Sugarloaf Reservoir

Everyone should learn four things - how to ngalamarra (fish), how to love someone boundlessly, how to grow your own vegetables, and how to read. The patience for ngalamarra, respect for loving, the soil for gardening and a dictionary for reading.

~ Tara June Winch, The Yield, p. 171

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Great Ocean Road

Just as the Christian has his moments when the clamor of this visible and audible world is so persistent, and the whisper of the spiritual world so faint that faith and reason can hardly stick to their guns, so, as I well remember, the atheist too has his moments of shuddering misgiving, of an all but irresistible suspicion that old tales may after all be true, that something or someone from outside may at any moment break into his neat, explicable, mechanical universe.

Believe in God, and you will have to face hours when it seems obvious that this material world is the only reality; disbelieve in Him, and you must face hours when this material world seems to shout at you that it is not all. No conviction, religious or irreligious, will, of itself, end once and for all this fifth-columnist in the soul. Only the practice of faith will gradually do that.

~ C.S Lewis, 'Religion: Reality or Substitute' in "Christian Reflections", p.57

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Serpentine River from a C-152

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

~ A.W Tozer

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Tunnicliff Forest Trail

The Rider

A boy told me

if he roller-skated fast enough

his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him,

the best reason I ever heard

for trying to be a champion.

What I wonder tonight

pedaling hard down King William Street

is if it translates to bicycles.

A victory! To leave your loneliness

panting behind you on some street corner

while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,

pink petals that have never felt loneliness,

no matter how slowly they fell.

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

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Geysir Geothermal Area, Iceland

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. You cannot fight without something to fight for. To love a thing without wishing to fight for it is not love at all; it is lust. It may be an airy, philosophical, and disinterested lust; it may be, so to speak, a virgin lust; but it is lust, because it is wholly self-indulgent and invites no attack. On the other hand, fighting for a thing without loving it is not even fighting; it can only be called a kind of horse-play that is occasionally fatal.

~ G.K Chesterton, 'Charles Dickens: A Critical Study'

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Wildflower Country, Western Australia

The secret of joy is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

~ Elisabeth Elliott

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King's Creek Canyon

All of Christ's actions find their meaning only as we recognise love as the underlying motive - the spring from which everything comes forth. If we ever come to the place where we think love is a footnote in our discussions of Christ, it is at this point that we immediately find ourselves talking about someone other than Him.

~ Shawn Brace, 'There's More to Jesus', p.12.

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Kuang Si Waterfall

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

~ Paul Tillich

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The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world’s worst tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them for little beside ourselves.

- A.W. Tozer

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Anmatjere Man (and Camel) at Aileron

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness of have gone stark raving mad.

~ Norm Papernick

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“There is only one thing in human psychology that deserves to be called courage. That is the power of loving a hopeless cause so much that it becomes a hopeful cause. All courage is the courage of the forlorn hope: you must first accept the forlornness; you must yourself create the hope.”

— G.K. Chesterton

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Canoeing the Ord River

There are not three levels of spiritual life - worship, waiting, and work. Yet some of us seem to jump like frogs from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together as one. They were always together in the life of our Lord and in perfect harmony. It is a discipline that must be developed; it will not happen overnight.

~ Oswald Chambers, 'My Utmost for His Highest', January 6th.