Joy Has A Name

That name is Jesus Christ

[with-grace-and-guts]

Justin Michau // Instagram

[heartbeatofatwentysomething]

But it was Jesus who taught me there was nothing I could really lose if I had Him. He taught me to be palms up, just like He was. Palms up means you have nothing to hide and nothing to gain or lose. Palms up means you are strong enough to be vulnerable, even with your enemies. Even when you have been tremendously wronged. Jesus was palms up, to the end.

Bob Goff, Love Does

[thelongkissgoodnight]

[worshipgifs]

He works on us in all sorts of ways: not only through what we think our “religious life." He works through Nature, through our own bodies, through books, sometimes through experiences which seem (at the time) antiChristian. But above all, He works on us through each other.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

[anditslove]

[theclivechronicles]

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God ‘made up out of His head’ as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.

C.S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity”

[euo]

"My head is made of the same material as the sun.”

Upstream Color (2013) dir. Shane Carruth

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[joyhasaname-blog]

"Dream Girl", Kate Moss by Ryan McGinley for W July 2007

[larmoyante]

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

[yesdarlingido]

The beauty of being able to truly be yourself with somebody is knowing that they’re not keeping the door cracked open for another option. So, at the end of the day, if you’re not getting a divorce, you can channel your energy towards one another and make this thing work. If you have all the benefits of marriage without the covenant of marriage, often you have to do a lot of self-promotion. You’re continually marketing yourself to the other person in order to keep them interested. This is fun at first, but it is exhausting over the long haul. At some point, we have to come to grips with the fact that we’re not as exceptional as we once thought we were—that we are actuality pretty mediocre and average because we’re just people after all.

Jon Tyson, Reality San Francisco

[joyhasaname-blog]

Abba

Speak a yes into my heart today.

[meditationsinwonderland]

I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep being born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

Donald Miller | Through Painted Deserts

[moldavia]

Malgosia Bela in The Gentlewoman S/S 2014 by Roe Ethridge

[caiofernandodeabreu]

É que logo vi que tu era diferente do resto. — Caio Fernando Abreu

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According to google translate: And then I saw that you were different from the rest.

[vidabrilla]

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

Thomas Merton

[oniyide]

We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

- C.S. Lewis, The Weight of The Glory

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