#faith and endurance

[presswoodterryryan]

Finishing Well: Lessons from Paul

By Alice Hi friends! It’s Alice, your Bible-loving adventurer! 🐰✨ Last night’s family Bible study was such a wonderful experience as we delved into the theme of finishing well—staying faithful to God and looking forward to the incredible reward He has in store for us. Daddy posed a thought-provoking question to us, asking, “What’s something you’ve worked really hard to finish?” Ariel…

[miri-l]

[aspirant1598]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Hardships often prepare people for an extraordinary destiny.

- C.S. Lewis

The Basilica della Santissima Annunziata in Florence, Italy.

[coline7373]

« We will be alright, as long as we stay together. »

[booksandothersecrets]

Dedication of Maurice by E.M. Forster // Sappho // The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall

[wiirocku]

1 Corinthians 10:13 (NLT) - The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, He will show you a way out so that you can endure.

[thepersonalwords]

ENDURANCEI don't know you,But I love you,Just as God loves me and you.The sun and the moonAre opposing forces,But they still greet each other,Peacefully,As one awakens in the morning,Just as the other goes to sleep.Life has pounded me downAnd thrashed me around,Time and time again,But I always get right back up,Because I still love life -Just as the earth still lovesThe rain.

Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

[highly-flammable]

It’s kind of funny that people keep arguing about which love interest Klaus Mikaelson loved the most when canonically he would have screwed his family over in order to bring Cami O’Connell back from the dead. And knowing him, he would have justified it perfectly.

[sallyrooneygf]

Bruce Springsteen, Streets of Philadelphia // Ignazio Giacometti, Judas kissing Jesus, 1854 // Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) // Spartacus: War of the Damned (2013) // Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes // The Lovers of Valdaro // Sid & Nancy (1986) // Stag interlocked with the severed head of a defeated opponent // Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit: And Three Other Plays; „No Exit“

[quotelr]

You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer. But everything imagined began with a dream.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

[alwaysrememberjesus]

Developing Endurance

[lilgreeneyes71]

Persecution

2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Luke 6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

Matthew 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

1 Peter 3:14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

2 Corinthians 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

[bringthekingdom]

[camelspit]

whyy do the yuri gods hate me 😩

[wiirocku]

Psalm 119:90 (NKJV) - Your faithfulness endures to all generations; You established the earth, and it abides.