Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth “you owe me”
Look what happens with a love like that
It lights up the sky
“Being satisfied in God (or anything) always seems easier when all is going well. But when things you love are being stripped out of your hands, then the test is real. If God remains precious in those moments, then his supreme worth shines more brightly. He is most glorified.
The most meaningful testimonies I receive are when people tell me that it was a vision of the sovereignty and goodness of God that got them through the most difficult times of their life.
Here is one of those testimonies. I tremble with the glad responsibility of introducing you to Ian & Larissa Murphy in this video. Tremble, because it is their story and so personal. So delicate. So easily abused. So unfinished. Glad, because Christ is exalted over all things.”
- John Piper.
Without a doubt, one of the most touching love stories. Love that goes beyond, stays, and grows in hard times.
Best wedding video I’ve ever posted, hands down, simply because it’s not about the wedding, it’s about the marriage.
(Source: both-seeker-and-sought)
Anyone leading the spiritual life is called to be a martyr.
I will achieve victory in bearing witness to my beloved in death or life.
At the cost of a single hour, they purchased for themselves life everlasting.
St. Polycarp on martyrdom
heyloveisallyouneed asked: Annie, my darling, I miss you unbelievably.
Mary!! I miss you too!!
(via savsam)
"If loving other people is a bit of heaven then certainly isolation is a bit of hell, and to that degree, here on earth, we decide in which state we would like to live."
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz (via makingdiamondsoutofwreckage)
(via findinghannah)
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
Have you ever just felt the Holy Spirit just pour grace into your heart?
(Source: agirlchangingtheworld, via her-insensitivity)
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Know then, O beautiful soul, that you are the image of God.
- St. Ambrose
