stephaniedear

i am small, like the wren. and my hair is bold, like the chestnut burr. and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.

[themotivationjournals]

If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.

Ruthie Lindsey (via themotivationjournals)

[stephaniedear]

Contentment is a sweet, inward heart-thing. It is the work of the Spirit indoors.

Jeremiah Burroughs

[julesville]

Smell-goods, picked fresh in the Wallowa Mountains. 

[stephaniedear]

The blood of Jesus! Sin dies at its presence, death ceases to be death: heaven's gates are opened. The blood of Jesus! We shall march on, conquering and to conquer, so long as we can trust its power!

Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening

[stephaniedear]

But God, instead of demanding a ransom from us, pays it Himself...Only at the cross do we discover how much it cost God to redeem us "from the realm of the dead."

The Psalms of Jesus, Timothy Keller

[alexander-james-ink]

Why are you distant, beloved? The veil is torn.

Adopted by Perfection:   (via hejk)

Hallelujah!!!

[plantkindnessgatherjoy]

[unwakeable]

[stephaniedear]

Love your enemies! Do good to them. Lend to them without expecting to be repaid. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for He is kind to those who are unthankful and wicked. You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.

Jesus, Luke 6:35-37

[stephaniedear]

Why is condemnation so quick in our veins and compassion so sluggishly slow?

Ann Voskamp

[hannaoliviaway]

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

CS Lewis (via hannaoliviaway)

Thank You Jesus

[stephaniedear]

How I picture myself when I'm drinking tea

[stephaniedear]

Source: weheartit

[stephaniedear]

He went without comfort so you might have it. He postponed joy so you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow.

Joni Eareckson Tada

[stephaniedear]

I confess that to me also You seem not to care, to be doing nothing. That is wrong. The cross proves incontrovertibly, eternally, that You do care. I praise You and rest in You for that.

Timothy Keller, The Songs of Jesus

[love-personal]

[stephaniedear]

C00l

[thequotejournals]

The sweet small clumsy feet of April came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

E.E Cummings,  If Have Made, My Lady, Intricate (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)