#rites

I kissed Ryan, and it charged him up like a freaking Duracell. ↗

— Kelly Oram

#supernatural #young-adult #supernatural

All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping, sky-diving, hard drugs, alcohol. Over the years he'd come to see solid sense in the ways so-called savage peoples formalised their rituals of manhood; without such regulation, young men seemed compelled to invent their own, even more lethal, rites of passage. ↗

— Alison Fell

#young-men #experience

Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God. ↗

— Eric Ludy

#leslie-ludy #when-god-writes-your-love-story #love

Dude, you're a vampire. EVERY day sucks for you. ↗

— Heather Brewer

#journalism

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#gossip #hypocrites #judgement #low-self-esteem #gossip

I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven? ↗

— Heather Brewer

#journalism

It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #convenience #convictions #evangelists #hypocrisy

Curiouser and curiouser. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#favorites #humor #humor

The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God. ↗

— Leslie Ludy

#leslie-ludy #when-god-writes-your-love-story #love

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#death #funeral-rites #holden #hope