#iving

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. ↗

— David Deida

#living #love #suffering #death

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#life-and-living #death

The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of decree." God's "will of decree" is whatever comes to pass. "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that" (James 4:15). God's "will of decree" ordained that his Son be betrayed (Luke 22:22), ridiculed (Isaiah 53:3), mocked (Luke 18:32), flogged (Matthew 20:19), forsaken (Matthew 26:31), pierced (John 19:37), and killed (Mark 9:31). But the Bible teaches us plainly that we should not betray, ridicule, mock, flog, forsake, pierce, or kill innocent people. That is God's "will of command." We do not look at the death of Jesus, clearly willed by God, and conclude that killing Jesus is good and that we should join the mockers. ↗

— John Piper

#christian-living #god #sovereignty #death

I realized that life doesn't work that way-that just because you have dreams and make plans, it doesn't mean that they will come true. ↗

— Heather London

#life-lessons #dreams

Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead! ↗

— Ted Dekker

#forbidden #life #living #mortal #ted-dekker

The egoic mind imagines a problem, and then it imagines a solution. When we get caught up in these thoughts, we feel like we have a problem that has to be solved before we can be happy. But the problem is just imagined! When we drop out of involvement with these thoughts and into the simple experience of the present moment, we discover that everything is fine just the way it is. Life never had to be any different than it is, nor do we. We can be the "imperfect" human we are. In fact, we weren't designed to be anything other than the human being that we are. ↗

— Gina Lake

#solving-problems #design

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#living #dreams

Write it as a dream, read it as a goal. ↗

— Sakurai Sho

#inspirational #life #living-to-the-fullest #dreams

If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#dreams

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#forgiveness