#vary

Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it. ↗

— Richard J. Foster

#forgiveness #golgotha #jesus #salvation #sin

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#central #direction #fashions #greece #imagination

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. ↗

— Criss Jami

#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#disappointment #distrust #failure #attitude

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#george-r-r-martin #ned-stark #varys #innocence

The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#jesus #the-cross #family

There, at the top of the table, alone amongst all these women, stooped over his ample plateful, with his napkin tied around his neck like a child, an old man sat eating, drips of gravy drbibbling gravy from him lips. His eyes were bloodshot and he had a little pigtail tied up with a black ribbon. This was the Marquis' father-in-law... he had led a... Read more tumultuous life of debauchery and duelling, of wagers made and women abducted, had squandered his fortune and terrified his whole family... Emma's eyes kept coming back to this old man with the sagging lips, as though to something wonderfully majestic. He had lived at court and slept in the bed of a queen! ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#family

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#love #madame-bovary #quotes #love

You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#christ #cross-of-calvary #dark #darkness #eclipse

You should wait, William," Miss Frost said. "The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences. ↗

— John Irving

#relationship