#tie

Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 29:11 ↗

— Bible N T Gospels Selections

#good-news #guidance #helpful #informatioal #joy

Take patiently the petty annoyances, the trifling discomforts, the unimportant losses which come upon all of us daily; for by means of these little matters, lovingly and freely accepted, you will give Him your whole heart, and win His. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

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The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass...all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#suffering #love

God's favor floats as it were over all this and finds joy in turning all those miseries to the greater profit of those who love Him. From toil He makes patience spring forth. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

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We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#conversation #hope #love #patience #understanding

Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to discriminate against gay and female characters, the unavoidable implication is that they should have known better than to add to the sum total of those stories which, en masse, do exactly that. And if the listmakers can identify the trend so thoroughly – if, despite all the individual qualifications, protests and contextualisations of the authors, these problems can still be said to exist – then the onus, however disconnected from the work of any one individual, nonetheless falls to those individuals, in their role as cultural creators, to acknowledge the problem; to do better next time; perhaps even to apologise. This last is a particular sticking point. By and large, human beings tend not to volunteer apologies for things they perceive to be the fault of other people, for the simple reason that apology connotes guilt, and how can we feel guilty – or rather, why should we – if we’re not the ones at fault? But while we might argue over who broke a vase, the vase itself is still broken, and will remain so, its shards ground into the carpet, until someone decides to clean it up. Blog Post: Love Team Freezer ↗

— Foz Meadows

#minorities #narratives #writing #ya #love

He was nice. And he was hot. And he didn't seem to mind that I was borderline mental. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#love

Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full. ↗

— Elif Shafak

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The Female Orgasm. The Big O. That elusive, reclusive Loch Ness of the labia. Does it prove the existence of God, or just His twisted sense of humor? ↗

— Kirstie Collins Brote

#first-love #love #new-adult #new-adult-lit #new-adult-romance

The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal. ↗

— Kirstie Collins Brote

#humor #new-adult #new-adult-fiction #nineties #love