#tempt

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With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shake The darkness out of me, and rend the mesh The spider-devils spin out of the flesh- Eager to net the soul before it wake, That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake. George MacDonald


George MacDonald


#religious #sin #temptation #the-fall #theology

Nothing is born into this world without labor.


Rob Liano


#action #attempt #birth #coaching #inspiration

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.


Criss Jami


#argumentation #avoidance #challenge #challenger #contempt

She reached for his wrist, clutched it. “How do I look?” “Hurt. Pained. Destroyed.” “If I could look into your eyes, what would I see in them, Iain?” “Devastation. Shame for what I was. Hatred for the vanity and arrogance of my youth. A love for you that has never, ever died, but has only grown and matured, and become all-consuming. Tears,” he said, and pressed his face to hers so she could “see” them. “Because I know it is truly over now that the truth is out, and I don’t know how I’m going to live without you. Forgive me,” he whispered, then stole a kiss from her lips. “Forgive me, and the boy I was, and the man I turned out to be.


Charlotte Featherstone


#elizabeth #iain #temptation-and-twilight #forgiveness

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations.


Shannon L. Alder


#daughters-of-god #forgiveness #god #grace #growth

Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?


Sherry Thomas


#sherry-thomas #tempting-the-bride #forgiveness

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.


Harold Russell


#any #authority #away #civil #constitutional

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.


Roland Allen


#attempt #belief #believe #converts #divine

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.


Walter Annenberg


#god #grant #off #strength #surrender

It's not always about how often we brush our teeth;But which food we eat to have a silly smell.


Sephiwe Mduduzi Msiza


#food