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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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Fanny B

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adult life is truly just thinking “I NEED TO CLEAN” while dealing with the 17 other things that have a hard deadline

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Whatsoever we have...idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it;

John Flavel

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Reality is inherently dualistic. There is good and there is bad. Let’s say, there is God and He created this world. You can either live His way or your own way. You can walk along the path to His Kingdom where His way reigns or along the path of your own kingdom where your way reigns. You will realise along the road that your own way often leads to destruction and suffering, but you are determined to continue. The further you walk, the less of God’s nature and kingdom is seen. You see less of selfless love, instead you see selfishness and greed and isolation. You don’t see order anymore, instead you see chaos and everyone doing that which seems right to them. To one it seems right to steal, because what is ”right” anyway? There isn’t such a thing, because right and wrong have become subjective. You finally reach the end of your road and you’re faced with the gates of your very own, self-made hell. In the far distance, you see the gates of heaven and the people joyously walking into the kingdom in which truth and selfless love reign. But you never lived according to those things so why would you think that somehow you would end up there?

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Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all.

C. S. Lewis

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“It is a good sign that God is coming towards us with deliverance when he inclines and enables us to cry to him for it.”

— Matthew Henry on Exodus