#comp

The discrepancy between the vacationists’ good times and Isolde’s unfortunate experience is more than disgusting ↗

— Paul Hindemith

#experience

It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#worship #experience

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us. ↗

— P.T. Forsyth

#faith #faith

The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#faith #humility #faith

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along. ↗

— Alice Walker

#faith #god #hope #life #strength

Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#against #been #campaign #come #during

Such an Ibisian scene: both their faces were formal masks, their posture correct, pain kept inside where it cut deeper. ↗

— Andrea K. Höst

#family #masks #pain #family

If there are segregated plates of fruit, I suggest a four-to-one ratio of non-watermelon to watermelon. Look, they know you want it. YOU know you want it. So if you conspicuously avoid it, that's an admission right there: guilt by omission. ↗

— Baratunde R. Thurston

#company-parties #food

[...] during one train stop, I watched as another guard with a spirit of empathy, ran out into an apple orchard and picked apples. He carried his jacket like a bag and filled it with apples. The kind German came to our open train window and handed us each an apple. The juicy apple tasted so delicious. I so appreciated that apple and his unusual compassion. ↗

— Oliver Omanson

#food-shortage #nazis #prisoner-of-war #world-war-ii #food

Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#difficult #dust #dust-the-rust #ease #excellence