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”Then as she looked up in the Shepherd’s face, he smiled most sweetly and said something he had never said before, "You have one real beauty: you have such trustful eyes. Trust is one of the much beautiful things in the world. When I look at the trust in your eyes I find you more beautiful to look upon than many a lovely queen.”

— Hinds’ feet on high places, Hannah Hurnard

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just read “to be loved is to be worth the inconvenience” it blew my mind away

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Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst.

John Piper

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“Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely. Such infinite majesty, and yet such meekness and grace, and all for sinners, even the chief! Live much in the smiles of God. Bask in his beams. Feel his all-seeing eye settled on you in love, and repose in his almighty arms… . Let your soul be filled with a heart-ravishing sense of the sweetness and excellency of Christ and all that is in Him. Let the Holy Spirit fill every chamber of your heart; and so there will be no room for folly, or the world, or Satan, or the flesh.”

— Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813-1843)

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“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

— C. S. Lewis (b. 29 Nov 1898), The Four Loves

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“There’s an old Jewish story that says in the beginning, God was everywhere and everything. A totality. But to make creation, God had to remove Himself from some part of the universe, so something besides Himself could exist. So He breathed in, and in the places where God withdrew, there creation exists. “So God just leaves?” No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of human life and gives meaning to it by caring passionately about us, and remembering. Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine: Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it. But the sparrow still falls.”

— Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

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“The Maker of awesome galaxies and stars is also the infallible Physician of broken hearts and wounded spirits.”

— Charles Spurgeon

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"Teach me to teach this to my children. That the loneliness we feel is actually an indication of our need for God. It’s never going to go away until we realise that the hole is a God-sized hole, and no intimate relationship is ever, ever going to fill it, no matter how hard they try and no matter how hard we try to fit them into it."

—prayers from the mountain

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