[gratitudechangesthings-deactiva]

One of the most damaging things some pastors do is take the most horrible things done in life and say “Jesus is the answer” and everyone goes “amen” while they remain confused as to why He’s the answer.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

“When spiritual comfort is sent to you by God, take it humbly and give thanks meekly for it. But know for certain that it is the great goodness of God that sends it to you, and not because you deserve it.”

—

Thomas a Kempis

[luthienne]

“I decided I wasn’t going to cater to what anyone else might like — why should I —”

— Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Anita Pollitzer, from Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters

[huariqueje]

“Filling a space in a beautiful way – that’s what art means to me.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe  (via huariqueje)

[elsastclaire]

“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things.”

— Georgia O’Keeffe

[luthienne]

“It will undoubtedly take quite a period of fumbling before I start on a new path, but I’m started—and seem to settle down to it every day as tho’ it is the only thing to do.”

— Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Jean Toomer, featured in Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life

[sskeptical]

“…and I’m disgusted with dreams now — I want real things — live people to take hold of — to see — and to talk to — Music that makes holes in the sky —”

— Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Anita Pollitzer, from Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters (via dieworten)

[huariqueje]

“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”

— ‘Georgia O’Keeffe    (via huariqueje)

[icannotbejondenden47]

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

Oswald Chambers

[gothicchristian]

“How glibly they say: ‘Lord, I am willing for anything.’ Do you know that God is asking of you your very life? There are cherished ideals, strong wills, precious relationships, much-loved work, that will have to go…”

— Ni Tuosheng

[rhyanmkenzi]

“If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; or even if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him. If the providential will of God means a hard and difficult time for you, go through it.”

— My Utmost - Oswald Chambers (via toknowyourname)

[funeral]

C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 2: 1951-1961

[free-my-mindd]

-Carl Jung

[gratitudechangesthings-deactiva]

If you forget just lift your head—my banner over you is love.

[existential-celestial]

“April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

[awfullybigwardrobe44]

Thinking about that one time in Prince Caspian where Susan is the last to see Aslan and her ultimate problem is unbelief

Yet when Aslan greets her, he doesn’t scold her for unbelief or a lack of faith but instead says “You have listened to fears, child,” choosing to approach her gently and focus on her pain instead of her wrongdoing (which she has already realized and already feels bad about)

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

"Be much alone with God. Do not put Him off with a quarter of an hour morning and evening. Take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Talk everything over with Him. Pour out every thought, feeling, wish, plan, and doubt to Him. He wants converse with His creatures. Shall His creatures not want converse with Him? He wants, not merely to be on “good terms” with you, if one may use man’s phrase, but to be intimate. Shall you decline the intimacy and be satisfied with mere acquaintance? What! Intimate with the world, with friends, with neighbors, but not with God? That would look ill indeed. Folly, to prefer the clay to the potter, the marble to the sculptor, this little earth and its lesser creatures to the mighty Maker of the universe, the great “All and in all!” – Horatius Bonar