Amor est vitae essentia

"Tumblr is like speaking your soul to others in words, pictures, quotes, videos, music. And people listen. They read you. But they don’t respond. There's only silence. A display of your soul like in an art gallery. Or museum."

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i want to be someone else’s safety. even nonromantically. i want to be “hey can i tell you something?” i want to be - i tried something new and i’m a little scared but i wanted to show you. i want to be “i knew i could trust you”. i want to be okay to hold the hand of, always ready to listen, always trying. even if i don’t get it perfect, you know? i just want to be a place other people can relax and be themselves and not worry for a fraction of an instant. 

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『かえりみち 3』

[likohno]

Take advice this day. Search your own heart, and see whether the fault is not entirely your own. Very likely you are sitting at ease, content with a little faith, and a little repentance, a little grace and a little sanctification, and unconsciously shrinking back from extremes. You will never be a very happy Christian at this rate, if you live to the age of Methuselah. Change your plan, if you love life and would see good days, without delay. Come out boldly, and act decidedly. Be thorough, thorough, very thorough in your Christianity, and set your face fully towards the sun. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that does so easily overtakes you. Strive to get nearer to Christ, to abide in Him, to cleave to Him, and to sit at His feet like Mary, and drink full portions out of the fountain of life.

J.C. Ryle

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[likohno]

wanderlusts:

youfancyme:

This is romance. 

But like, when it comes down to it- this is all any of us actually want, right? We want someone we’ll be happy sitting next to on a couch while watching television and eating frozen yogurt. Someone we can do the laundry with and grocery shop with and take the occasional walk in the rain with.

We all want adventures. I’ve had plenty and I want lots more. But what we all really want is someone who will stick with us through the boring moments. More so, someone who will actually anticipate a night of boringness with us. Someone who will make the boring moments not so boring, y’know?

[likohno]

Why then instead of taking Christ at His Word, do we prefer to argue, to claim our "rights", to muddle through on our own? In this way paradise was lost. It is the same enemy who comes to us today with the same lie ("you shall not die, but live"). Yet still faithfully Jesus calls us to life and to utter bliss those who will follow His way. Granted, it is the way of the Cross, but only that way leads to resurrection. He offers an exchange: His life for ours.

Elisabeth Elliot

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When someone you love offers a bid for connection, you say yes every time. When someone sends you an article, a video, a funny post, it’s a bid for connection. They are trying to connect with you. When someone shares details about their day, their life, their thoughts, or their feelings with you, that is a bid for connection. They want to connect with you on a deeper level. They are trying to pull you into their world. If you love them, you say yes every time. Yes, even if the article they send is not particularly interesting to you. Yes, even if it means listening to them ramble about a game you don’t care about and think is stupid. Yes yes yes. And let’s hope they always say yes to your bids, too.

[birdasaurus]

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[likohno]

The irony of the pain of suffering is that it points us to the higher joy found in Christ alone, in the midst of a supermarket of temptations to delight in other lesser realities. We sinful people tend to judge the degree of blessedness by the degree to which comfort and ease are afforded us. When we learn to judge the degree of our blessedness by the degree to which Christlikeness is being formed in us, we will be able to make more room in our hearts to embrace suffering as Paul did.

Heath Lambert, “A Theology of Biblical Counseling”

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[likohno]

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

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"Im slowly forgetting your face."

[likohno]

It seemed to me that God had looked over the whole world to find a man who was weak enough to do His work, and when He at last found me, He said, “He is weak enough - he will do.” All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.

J. Hudson Taylor

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“Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely. Such infinite majesty, and yet such meekness and grace, and all for sinners, even the chief! Live much in the smiles of God. Bask in his beams. Feel his all-seeing eye settled on you in love, and repose in his almighty arms… . Let your soul be filled with a heart-ravishing sense of the sweetness and excellency of Christ and all that is in Him. Let the Holy Spirit fill every chamber of your heart; and so there will be no room for folly, or the world, or Satan, or the flesh.”

— Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813-1843)

[likohno]

A proud man complains that he has no more. A humble man wonders that he has so much.

Thomas Watson

[likohno]

[likohno]

Both the wisdom and the strength will always be given, in perfect measure, when the time comes, if we take up quietly and faithfully the duties of today. Let us not make the mistake of directing our energies toward what is not today’s business. The best preparation for the future is always the conscientious carrying out of what is given us today.

Elisabeth Elliot