#ram

Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#love

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#damage #gives #i #me #program

You’re not a failure. You’re a survivor. Call me. –Drew ↗

— Jeanne McDonald

#love #romance #love

But to reject, marginalize, trivialize, or be suspicious of the sacraments (and quasi-sacramental acts such as lighting a candle, bowing, washing feet, raising hands in the air, crossing oneself and so forth) on the grounds that such things CAN be superstitious or idolatrous or that some people might suppose they are putting God in their debt, is like rejecting sexual relations in marriage on the grounds that it's the same act that in other circumstances constitutes immorality. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#sacraments #marriage

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a marriage ceremony in scripture and the primitive church had not considered marriage a sacrament before AD 537. ↗

— Adam Nicolson

#history #marriage #sacrament #marriage

Don’t hide what you have just because people tell you it’s not normal. I have known normal people…and guess what? They are as boring as hell... ↗

— Sidney Knight

#inspiration #inspirational #motivational #psychological #psychological-drama

We are only victims if we allow ourselves to be. ↗

— McCartney Green

#drama #gritty #inspirational #romance #romantic-suspense

I can't read your lips unless they touch mine. ↗

— Jaf Liethers

#grammar #impassioned #inspiring #jaf-liethers #kiss

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something. ↗