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I know what evil looks like under the surface. No matter how beautiful the exterior, how good the lies, I don’t fool myself, not any more. You carry a terrible burden that no one – not even me – can really understand. But that doesn’t change who you are, Frost. You’re a good person. And I love you.” “I wish…” My voice cracked. “I wish I could believe in that.” Luca brushed the dishevelled strands of hair away from my face again and looked into my eyes. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll keep saying it until you do.
— Zoë Marriott
Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars
We kind of fell into one another, not even realizing it was happening.
— Ashley D. Wallis, Leaping
I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind.
— Zoë Marriott, FrostFire
Christopher, baby, I love you. Completely. I love your looks and everything else about you.” She felt his hand enclose around hers. “I know you do. Ashleigh…I love you so much that it scares me. Everything I do, I have you in mind.
— Pepper Pace, Beast
She did what she could for him. She kissed him in return. She lost her breath and both her hearts, and finally Turned to smoke and back.
— Shana Abe, The Dream Thief
Do you know my best quality?” she asks. ”Of your many, I could not say, my darling.” ”I see the best in people. I fall in love with people when I see a window into their beings, their shining moments. I’ve fallen in love with so many people but the trouble is I fall out of love so quickly too. I see the worst in them just as easily. ”Do you know I fell in love with you right away? That day at the Trotters’ I had noted you because you were new, of course, and then you sat down at the piano, and you played a few notes, but you played them so well, with no self consciousness, and no idea that anyone might be listening. It was in that room off the garden and you were the only one there. I was passing through on the way to the ladies’ room and saw you there. I fell in love with you right then, and so I slipped my drink all over myself so I could meet you.” 
— Janice Y.K. Lee
I’ve been able to see all that I’ve needed, my love: your kindness, your compassion, your tenderness, your love, and your soul. These are all I care about.Of course you do and I don’t expect anything different from you. But next time, I will give you more. You’ll see the colours of every season.
— Jacquie Underdown, The Paler Shade Of Autumn
We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and high-spirited that afternoon and th spectacle we presented, two grown men, jostling each other on the wide sidewalk, and aiming the cherry-pips, as though they were spitballs, into each other's facesm must have been outrageous. And I realized that such childishness was fantastic at my age and the happiness out of which it sprang yet more so; for that moment I really loved Giovanni, who had never seemed more beautiful than he was that afternoon. And, watching his face, I realized that it meant much to me that I could make his face so bright. I saw that I might be willing to give a great deal not to lose that power. And I felt myself flow toward him, as a river rushes when the ice breaks up.
— James     Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
And then finally she came - and the whole world faded out around us and we were just alone on the crowded sidewalk. I've heard it called love.("I Won't Take a Minute" aka "I'll Just Be a Minute" aka "Wait for Me Downstairs" aka "Finger Of Doom")
— Cornell Woolrich, The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich: An Inner Sanctum Collection of Novelettes and Short Stories
When you try to cast doubt on the relationship of two true lovers.You'll find a bond that you'll never discover
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Love, at its best, wipes commonsenseAway. Much as drops will condenseFrom hidden liquid in the air, So, too, do lovers soon compareTheir temp’ratures til, happily,Their judgement fogs up suddenly.
— McKenzie Bodkin, The Water Mage's Daughter: A Novel of Love, Magic and War in Verse
I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.‘For the big job,’ you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I’d never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to.
— Kate Chisman
When you give your heart away, you usually get it back in pieces, fragments. And often, a great deal of time passes before you realize that every piece wasn’t returned to you—and probably never will be. You crave nothing more than to get those small—but vital—fragments back; to return to the unbroken, undamaged version of yourself. But what's been broken cannot be unbroken, and so all you can do is learn to live with the void of the missing pieces, to somehow find beauty in the wreckage.And so I did.Sophie Lenon
— Krystal McLean, My Darrling
You promised me one night. I want you next to me tonight. We have the rest of our lives to be apart.
— S.H. Kolee, Love Left Behind
She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me.
— Kate Chisman
You wanted a wife but I wasstill a girl.
— Kate Chisman
My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my troth, for our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul
— Roman Payne
My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
To her own heart, which was shaped exactly like a valentine, there came a winglike palpitation, a delicate exigency, and all the fragrance of all the flowery springtime love affairs that ever were seemed waiting for them in the whisky bottle. To mingle their pain their handshake had promised them, was to produce a separate entity, like a child that could shift for itself, and they scrambled hastily toward this profound and pastoral experience.
— Jean Stafford, The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
I don't know, it's stupid being 20," she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship
— Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
I give you," said Alexander, glancing at her, "what you need most from me.
— Paulina Simons
I worry about anything happening to you ... because I truly love you, every bit of you.
— Robyn Heirtzler, inDIVISIBLE
Love is tranquility in the world.
— Zai
The endless thing in the world is Love.That is Beautiful.
— Avinash Babu
Damn the way he had control over me.
— Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow
I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi," Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Two is always better than one.
— Missy Lyons, Alien Promise
-A man do everything for love, in love but he cant get love according to his desire, there is also involve the desire of someone else-
— Muhammad Ali Malin
I learned that love can end in one night, that great friends can become great strangers, that strangers can become best friends, that we never finish to know and understand someone completely, that the “never ever again” will happen again and that “forever” always ends, that the one that wants it can, will achieve it and get it, that the one that risks it never looses anything, that physique, figure and beauty attracts but personality makes one fall in love.
— Tommy Tran
There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawaterbegs the pearl to break its shell.and the lily, how passionatelyit needs some wild darling! Atnight, I open the window and askthe moon to come and press itsface against mine. Breathe intome. Close the language door andopen the lovers window. The moonwon’t use the door, only the window.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
— Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams
Peabody, you never cease to amaze me.""One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.
— J.D. Robb, Ceremony in Death
I’m not sure what it was or where she sprayed it, but her scent will be the end of the life I loved. And I will find comfort in the simpleness of sitting with her on a Saturday afternoon with nothing else to do.
— Darnell Lamont Walker, Book of She
Lust fades after climax, love lasts until breakfast!
— Tom Conrad
I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her.
— James Lusarde, The Lady Loves to Strip
One of the rarest and most beautiful things in this world is to meet someone who has the ability to intoxicate you. Every moment with her was exhilarating, and every moment without her was spent captivated by thoughts about her. She was like the finest of wines. And I was getting drunk.
— Richie Singh, Chasing Butterflies
He didn't ask because he didn't wanted to know. If you know, moments die an instant death. She held his hand in hers; hiding them like a pearl; her coral eyes ensconcing his pain.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
So help me, if something crawls out of one of these bags, I will castrate you.”“I bet you’d love that.”-Emma and Jackson
— Rachael Wade, Love and Relativity
That is what the opposites do, cross the swords invariably and unknowingly.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
Love is a renewable resource
— Susan Blanshard
Do they still hurt?" she whispered in anguished surprise."No," Jason said tautly. Shame washed over him in sickening waves as he waited helplessly for her inevitable reaction to the stark evidence of his humiliation.To his utter disbelief he felt her arms encircle him from behind and the touch of her lips on his back. "How brave you must have been to endure this," she whispered achingly, "how strong to survive it and go on living..." When she began kissing each scar, Jason rolled to his side and jerked her into his arms. "I love you," he whispered agonizedly, plunging his hands into her luxuriant hair and turning her face up to his. "I love you so much...
— Judith McNaught
Where will I find you now that my heart is yours?Where should I search? I don’t know where to look.You fill my heart with desire and love,The perfume of the lotus, the grace of a dove.But then the dove flies far, far away,All that is left is a song for my harp strings to play.A voice in my memories like an angel of grace,Where can I find you? Do you know how I pray?Where will I find you now that my love belongs to you?Wherever your heart beats, I’m dreaming of you.Now and forever my love belongs to you…Now and forever my love belongs to you…
— Bjorn Street, Secret of the Mummy
The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like sometimes, you can’t see it, but it never really goes away.
— Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
For those special moments you never want to forget. When it comes to you, all I need is a pencilEthan
— P.T. Michelle, Lucid
Life cannot be lived without irritations and angers; fights and placation-A cycle of Karma, wheels of succor.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
If you love someone, be their everything.
— T.A
People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.
— Wilhelm Reich, Where's The Truth
I have not betrayed Julia.
— George Orwell, 1984
Love may not expect love in return but lovers do.
— Na
Some of the dairy people, who were also out of doors on the first Sunday evening after their engagement, heard her impulsive speeches, ecstasized to fragments, though they were too far off to hear the words discoursed; noted the spasmodic catch in her remarks, broken into syllables by the leapings of her heart, as she walked leaning on his arm; her contented pauses, the occassional laugh upon which her soul seemed to ride - the laugh of a woman in company with the man she loves and has won from all other women - unlike anything else in nature. They marked the buoyancy of her tread, like the skim of a bird which has not yet alighted.
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Do you know the best way to get your body heat back?" Ethan asked her as he looked her in the eyes and stroked her glossy brown hair. “The way to warm up is to lie next to another person. Naked.
— Amanda Bretz, Love, Simplified
I did not have an opportunity to speak privately with Peter until just as he was leaving, when he handed me one of the Burns song-sheets and (with a most earnest look) told me to read it before I went to bed.The song was 'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose,' but it was not until was up in my bedchamber that I saw he had written on the inside page: 'My mother would be honoured if you visited her after church tomorrow.
— Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet
I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.
— Frank Harris, My Life and Loves
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.
— Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart would do.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can’t help but glow.
— Kellie Elmore
I may tear you apart but I'll put you back together.
— Donna Schoenrock
I left the bed as she had left it, unmade and rumpled, coverlets awry, so that her body's print might rest still warm beside my own.Until the next day I did not go to bathe, I wore no clothes and did not dress my hair, for fear I might erase some sweet caress.That morning I did not eat, nor yet at dusk, and put no rouge nor powder on my lips, so that her kiss might cling a little longer.I left the shutters closed, and did not open the door, for fear the memory of the night before might vanish with the wind.
— Pierre Louÿs, The Songs of Bilitis
His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know.
— Teri Terry
There is a little Juliet inside me, hoping I will lock eyes with my Romeo on the other side of a fish tank or through a gap in a library bookcase. Hell, even if it's behind the condiments section in a supermarket. I don't really mind.
— Jessica    Thompson
Everything and everyone has a place to be, Echo. It’s just a matter of how they get there and when. You have a place; you just have to find it.
— Nadège Richards, Burning Bridges
Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel?
— Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems
When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.
— Amanda Hocking, Virtue
With painstaking rumination, the tips of his fingers grazed over my neck, a deafening silence. I didn't move as his hand paused at the base of my throat. He listened to the arrhythmic beating of my heart, my pulse thumping beneath his fingers. He kissed me along my neckline and throat. I almost burst apart from the longing. My blood burned for him.
— Rae Hachton
When you love another deeply, you gain strength. When you receive anothers deep love, you gain courage
— Marina DeAngelo 2012 .
When he came back, I hid my face within my hands. He said: "Fear nothing. Who has seen our kiss? --Who saw us? The night and the moon.""And the stars and the first flush of dawn. The moon has seen its visage in the lake, and told it to the water 'neath the willows. The water told it to the rower's oar."And the oar has told it to the boat, and the boat has passed the secret to the fisher. Alas! alas! if that were only all! But the fisher told the secret to a woman."The fisher told the secret to a woman: my father and my mother and my sisters, and all of Hellas now shall know the tale.
— Pierre Louÿs, The Songs of Bilitis
And I swear, she tasted like the sun.
— S. Gregory
I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment
— Jane Austen, Emma
Because of her, there is no bridge between dreams and reality. In reality, because of her, drinking a glass of water has taste. In a dream, it doesn't have taste, unless she's in it with me. I do not have to dream about her, because all of my dreams about her, is my only reality.
— Lionel Suggs
Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.
— Pola Negri
I rather take the risk of trying to find real love than loving someone I know that is guaranteed
— Kristal Eley
Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and for the rest of the time were content to be forgotten.
— Andreï Makine, The Life of an Unknown Man
She had been hesitant the first night, right before she had launched into him like a wild animal. The imprint of her violence had lasted on him well until the morning and while he had been hurt, he had loved the fact that she was into him, that she lusted after him fanatically, that she scratched him, wept on him, bit him and he was grateful that she let him see her like that: unhinged, throbbing and warm-skinned. She was powerful and thus ironically all the more defenceless in surrender. At times he felt as though she truly hated him, hated him for making her feel like this, for having to condescend herself just by wanting him. He felt as though she was warning him constantly through her seething, hurtling silence; to not let her down after she had disclosed so much of her soul to him. Her insecurities, her memories, her fetishes, her scent, her limbs; they had all been laid-bare in front of him and as he lay there next to the girl whose chest heaved and fell like the meter of a ghazal, he fell in love with that girl and her bundle of contradictions.’('Left from Dhakeshwari')
— Kunal  Sen
Ian willed all his energy, all his strength through that touch and into Chris. Take it, take everything, babe. I'm yours.
— Kaje Harper, Lies and Consequences
I have seen conversations that I had three years ago, when I was young, in love, and naive. I've grown a lot since those days. I now know that love isn't just that abstract feeling, because there are so many other sides to it. Sometimes you learn that to truly love someone you have to just support them as a person, and step out of their view finder. Be their friend and nothing else. Sometimes you learn to walk away and find what you need. You learn you knew nothing and that's when you grow up and change your ways. There may be no fairy take endings, but that is okay, because love is much more real than that. So much less superficial.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
I remember being in the mood for love at the slightest provocation- your nubile body feeling undeniably illicit, under mine, rhyming, heaving, breathing together, each other, squirrel hands, down and across and stolen kisses, on and not on the lips. Then leaving scorching beds the color of the red desert sun and strawberry flavored. Your mysterious skin, salt lips: touching, each other. My libido, your mascara- getting all messed up in those rains, realizing for the first time that lust gnaws had no language, race, religion or brotherhood.’('Left from Dhakeshwari')
— Kunal  Sen
That dip in the road- that sends your belly to your throat... that's how it feels when you kiss me.
— Kellie Elmore
Parting is such sweet sorrow
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
He was such a great lover. He was so male, so thoroughly a man that she felt all the rewards of being his woman." (showing 0-0 of 0) (0.04 seconds)
— Sienna Mynx, Mi Carina - Diego's Wrath
Love Rocks The De La Cruz's World
— P.T. Macias
He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, "This is all very well, you're clever, we know—but come!" It haunted him so that he watched for it while his brain and tongue were busy, and when it came he felt himself replying, "I'll come—I didn't know.""You can't help yourself now. You must come.""I don't want to help myself.""Come then."He did come. He flung down all the barriers—not at once, for he did not live in a house that can be destroyed in a day.
— E.M. Forster, Maurice
All I ever wanted, nira I expected: Nonette, upon whom my life pivots.The name I give my fire when I lay down, defenseless before its majestic awfulness.A little no, a little negation. A French girly pout, the syllables for which have been found at last.All my hurt dug up, exposed for dissection in the glaring light, and finally melted away by the loving caresses of her yielding thighs.And the girl who took such simple joy in this terrible duty.Nonette.
— Julian Darius, Nira/Sussa
All I ever wanted, nira I expected: Nonette, upon whom my life pivots.The name I give my fire when I lay down, defenseless before its majestic awfulness.A little no, a little negation. A French girly pout, the syllables for which have been found at last.All my hurt dug up, exposed for dissection in the glaring light, and finally melted away by the loving caresses of her yielding thighs.And the girl who took such simple job in this terrible duty.Nonette.
— Julian Darius, Nira/Sussa
The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.
— Albert Schweitzer
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!
— T. Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are.
— Anita Moorjani, Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.
— Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism
Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.
— John Gardiner
Trying to eliminate worldly temptations only makes our spiritual growth limited.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction
— Margaret Silf, Sacred Spaces: Stations on a Celtic Way
Life is not worth living unless you live it for the One who gave you life.
— Anya vonderLuft
According to esoteric teachings power flows with thought and what we think about is what we actually value with our personal power. When you value matter more than spirit, you lose touch with your higher power, it's as simple as that.
— Shaeri Richards, Dancing with Your Dragon: The Art of Loving Your Unlovable Self
The only thing better than a happy Heart is a clear mind to keep it pumping. Cleanse yourself from within and you’re bound to win.
— Stabley Victor Paskavich
Eventually it will become quiet enough so that you can simply watch the heart begin to react, and let go before the mind starts. At some point in the journey it all becomes heart, not mind. ... The mind doesn’t even get achance to start up because you let go atthe heart level.
— Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Everything will be okay as soon as youare okay with everything. And that’s theonly time everything will be okay.
— Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
We stand before a burning bush whenever other human beings share with us something of their relationship with God or something of the movements of their hearts. In such moments may we always realize that we stand on holy ground
— Margaret Silf
You don't have to strive to be right, because you of faith are made right.
— Deborah Brodie
God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth.
— Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.
— Nancy Venable Raine, After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back
You are exactly who you need to be in this moment. Don't begrudge that or justify it.
— Jennifer  Mclean, The Big Book of YOU: Spiritual Principles for Creating Your Life and Accepting What Is
Welcome players… to both the story and experience of a survival-adventure ‘game’ that has become an extra reality for so many. It’s surely worth this telling since it’s as much your story as those involved in its creation, including so many scientists - those true pioneers - who still work to discover more of its secrets, in - and out - of the Source.
— Ade McOran-Campbell, Fountellion in The Spiral
I absolutely know that you can, under your own steam, dissolve the shell that separates you from a higher experience of Self and a much better life. You don't need gurus or to be catapulted into super-natural experiences by dramatic events — you are becoming such a high-frequency being right here in your physical body, that what used to be meta-physical, trans-personal, and para-normal is now almost ordinary." —from Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration
— Penney Peirce, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration
We are not called to embody Jesus ourselves; He has already been incarnated and is still even now! No, we are not called to be Jesus; we are called to fall at His feet and worship Him. We are called to affirm that "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth." [John 1:14] And it is through this worship, through recognizing His rightful place, that we are finally humbled.When we are consumed with God's glory, we forget to worry about our own. When our eyes are fixed on Him as the source of all goodness and truth and beauty, we accept that we are not. When we are enamored by His worth and majesty, we can stop being so enamored with ourselves. And fascinatingly, when we seek God's glory, we'll be able to appreciate it in the people around us. Instead of seeing them as threats to our own glory, we will see them as beautiful reflections of His.
— Hannah Anderson, Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul
You will say things with a merry tongue
—  you are not one for graceless words and no one will take offence. I will cause you to instruct many and your words will carry because they are not your words but my words – living words passing from generation to generation even to those yet unborn.
What sometimes appears to be a dramatic, traumatic obstacle is really a call for spiritual advancement....to grow into our spiritual garment. A shift in perspective brought by the White Light of Holy Spirit makes all the difference in the worlds.
— Mishi McCoy
You are truly zen when you can wipe your ass with the words you have written down.
— Anonymous
Not all experience the same sentiment while doing the same exact activity.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Dare to oppose yourself.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
A journey of the mind – a written vision quest – has only one goal: to interact with the world and attempt to develop the dormant intellectual and spiritual awareness of the author.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Sow the help of God into your daily battles, and reap a harvest of victory.
— Katy Kauffman, Breaking the Chains: Strategies for Overcoming Spiritual Bondage
Feelings harden into beliefs when we allow emotions to become bearers of truth.
— Ginger Harrington, Breaking the Chains: Strategies for Overcoming Spiritual Bondage
Imagining a virtual mentor evokes a genuine feeling of being supported and loved.
— Deborah Sandella
When you want to know how God wants you to reach your city, start a new church, or be involved in His work, ask Him. Then when He tells you, don't be surprised if you can't find any church that is doing it the same way.
— Henry T. Blackaby, Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God, Workbook
You will know the person who was meant to be in your life by how they make you feel spiritually. If they live in such a way that inspires you to become better then you have found someone you can evolve with vs. raise.
— Shannon L. Alder
Strange, as we find that alongside growing secularism in science and politics, growing materialism in the industrial revolution, and growing self-reliance in the world God becomes rejected by the world and Christians alike accepting an alternative God and yet time and time again we will find a great spiritual awakening and a great global advancement of the gospel of Jesus being birth.
— John M Sheehan
Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
From the fires of persecution, can come sparks of light.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
It often takes a period of time before what God has done in the spiritual world manifests in the physical world.
— Andrew Wommack, A Better Way to Pray
Weak people pretend they're perfect. Courageous people acknowledge and confront their weaknesses.
— Karim Camara
Every yesterday we lose ourselves so that we can find ourselves in tomorrow.
— Raneem Kayyali
Surround yourself with people who will believe in you, challenge you and encourage you.
— Karim Camara
The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
We need freedom, not through suffering, but through wisdom.
— Nebo D. Lukovich, Inner Peace, Outer Success: The Reintegration System: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Solving Problems and Achieving Goals with Cutting-Edge Mind Techniques
Fools follow foolishly their imaginary lookalikes as god. Such silly follies exist not. Seek 'What Is'. And is not.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Truth respects no ism.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Humans as a whole are but an unwholesome hole with a sorry ass. In short, a**holes.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
You have the love and support of God and the angels, but only you can take responsibility for your life, for your dreams. Only you can make the daily choices needed that create the life you want to live.
— Eileen Anglin
If we can somehow survive this world, we would've achieved something in this world.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
You need to be surrounded by people whose voices echo your soul voice.
— Robin Roberts
Just a child is free to wander in one's father's garden, discovering little or big things; it is left to the seeker to grow unto the Nature of the Absolute.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Our hope is that all is well because of Jesus and that all will be well because of Him.
— John Eldredge
At 70 and as a “seasoned citizens” I love to explore and experience “retiring to a forest" the ancient Vedic ashram system. This is a process that begins when a person is ready to hand over responsibilities to the next generation, take an advisory role, and gradually begin to withdraw from the world while enjoying the so called Golden Years and cherishing them as gold, while align our energies with our goal for increasing our spiritual awareness and growth. _nickc
— nick catricala
Grampa says the grass is not greener on the other side. All grass changes with the seasons, it grows, it browns, and it can die if you do not nurture it. You must accept the changes, yet the grass is as green as you make it right here and now! Going from one meadow to another does not change the season! Or the meadow!"Deetkatu, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure
— Chris DiSano Davenport, See the Little People...An Enchanting Adventure
Never stop feeling the amazement of partaking in one of the most incredible journeys you will ever walk, the walk of life. " ~ Roy Hale
— Roy Hale
As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Makin' it happen with Jesus! The good life.
— Jolake Bivins
No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Even the Master, in one way or another, is a student throughout life.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
It's all about the spirit. Every man, woman and child should be seen as a spirit first, before anything else. We are all spirits in the first instance.
— Andrew Agbonlahor, Demystifying Jesus of Nazareth: Parables and miracles.
Your mind is a powerful tool. Learn how to harness this power and your life will be filled with great things.
— Teresa Garcia
Like everything else in life, these questions have no easy answers.
— P. Wish, The Doppelgänger
Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the good. Yet a lot of this information only reaches those of us who have class privilege. And often, individuals whose lives are rich in spiritual and material well-being, who have diverse friends from all walks of life who nurture their personal integrity, tell the rest of the world these things are impossible to come by. I am talking here about the many prophets of doom who tell us that racism will never end, sexism is here to stay the rich will never share their resources. We would all be surprised if we could enter their lives for a day. Much of what they are telling us cannot be had, they have. But in keeping with a capitalist-based notion of well-being, they really believe there is not enough to go around, that the good life can only be had by a few.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
All our thought process should be concentrated on merger of soul with the vital life. When this realisation is achieved, it leads the soul from Atma to Paramatma, one in poccession of all.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal, Unanswered
For the being, maybe. But for the spirit, there are no quick sands.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
When is a train most free? Is it when it goes bouncing across the field off the track? No. It is free only when it is confined (if you will) to the track. Then it runs smoothly and efficiently, because that was the way that its maker intended for it to run. It needs to be on the track, structured by the track, to run properly. You too need to be on the track. God's track is found in God's Word.
— Jay E. Adams, Godliness Through Discipline
Jesus let the disciples know that they were striving in the wrong direction. They were trying to climb up a ladder that they instead should be climbing down.
— Jennifer L. Lane, Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God
Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration
—  but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom.
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life. Many people will pray when they are required by cultural or social circumstances. Those with a genuinely lived relationship with God as Father, however, will inwardly want to pray and therefore will pray even though nothing on the outside is pressing them to do so. They pursue it even during times of spiritual dryness, when there is no social or experiential payoff.
— Timothy J. Keller
Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.
— V. Raymond Edman, They Found the Secret: Twenty Lives That Reveal a Touch of Eternity
The pattern [of the crisis of the deeper life] seems to be self-centeredness, self-effort, increasing inner dissatisfaction and outer discouragement, a temptation to give it all up because there is no better way, and then finding the Spirit of God to be their strength, their guide, their confidence and companion--in a word, their life.
— V. Raymond Edman
All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path
—  but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development brings you a step forward.
A jeweler will prefer the smallest fragment of diamond to several sapphires; and so, in the order established by God, our intimacy with Him gives Him more glory than all possible good, procured by us, for a great number of souls, but to the detriment of our own progress. Our Heavenly Father, “who devotes Himself more to the direction of a soul in which He reigns, than to the natural government of the whole universe and to the civil government of all empires,” looks for this harmony in our zeal.
— Jean-Baptiste Chautard
Everything begins to feel right when we see the world in a different way."Living Beyond the Five Senses
— Teresa L. DeCicco, PhD
We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.
— Ron Brackin
After coming to God and being revived spiritually, every person should grow spiritually
— Sunday Adelaja
The moment you, as a spiritual person, stop growing, you simply die. Your ministry will grow as a consequence of your dedication, faithfulness and persistent desire to move on
— Sunday Adelaja
As conscious awareness awakens to the effects that environments have on the body and on one's emotional life, then there is a prodigious need to create environments that will reduce deleterious effects. "Living Beyond the Five Senses
— Teresa L. DeCicco, PhD
Your authority as a believer comes from Jesus’s triumph over the enemy.
— Pedro Okoro, The Ultimate Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Learn to Fight from Victory, Not for Victory!
Your drawbacks is not just the evil you did but the good you refuse to do
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom: the tripartite force in the pursuit of Divine Access
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Being unashamed is true humility.
— Steven Chopade
The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.
— St. Francis de Sales
The church I had loved so much was not a good place for me to hear the sound of my own voice. There was room for my talent but no room for my voice. The preacher’s voice was too loud. Teachings rooted in fear and condemnation were too loud. I had to get in a space where I could hear.
— Suzette R. Hinton
Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.
— Germany Kent
Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.
— Shannon L. Alder
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. John 1:12Divine sonship is not something that we gain of ourselves. Only to those who receive Christ as their Saviour is given the power to become sons and daughters of God. The sinner cannot, by any power of his own, rid himself of sin. For the accomplishment of this result, he must look to a higher Power. John exclaimed, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." Christ alone has power to cleanse the heart. He who is seeking for forgiveness and acceptance can say only,--"Nothing in my hand I bring;Simply to Thy cross I cling."But the promise of sonship is made to all who "believe on his name." Every one who comes to Jesus in faith will receive pardon.The religion of Christ transforms the heart. It makes the worldly-minded man heavenly-minded. Under its influence the selfish man becomes unselfish, because this is the character of Christ. The dishonest, scheming man becomes upright, so that it is second nature to him to do to others as he would have others do to him. The profligate is changed from impurity to purity. He forms correct habits; for the gospel of Christ has become to him a savor of life unto life.God was to be manifest in Christ, "reconciling the world unto himself." Man had become so degraded by sin that it was impossible for him, in himself, to come into harmony with Him whose nature is purity and goodness. But Christ, after having redeemed man from the condemnation of the law, could impart divine power, to unite with human effort. Thus by repentance toward God and faith in Christ, the fallen children of Adam might once more become "sons of God."When a soul receives Christ, he receives power to live the life of Christ.
— Ellen G. White
When you wish to talk to someone, talk to Jesus, He loves to hear you speak.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life's changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others.
— Peter Santos
A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us.
— Lame Deer
God does not exist everywhere. Not in the temple, not in the mosque, not in the church and not everywhere. GOD was just there in your heart, in your mind.
— Handi Priyono
Seek God's power and presence continually.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Adversity or time of trouble is an opportunity to either fall or stand, fail or pass, faint or be strong. The choice is yours.
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Discover Uncover and Recover All: The Ziklag Experience
There are times I have Doubted. Times I have lost my way- without my anchor I would probably be lost still. Yet I know there is a purpose in all of this-even if after almost a millennium, I still do not know exactly how God works. But I do know that you need to work out this anger, find your anchor, and- unlike the unmerciful servant in the story- learn to forgive in order to be forgiven. Even if God is the one you need to forgive. Even if it is yourself
— Bree Despain, The Savage Grace
Daily Bible reading, path of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every person has the choice to contribute to or drain from this world.
— Leta B.
The Bible, Holy writings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When we focus on winning the battle for material gains,we end up losing spiritual war.If we had a better self of ethics we would be better prepared to deal with the complicated world in which we find ourselves.
— David V. Gaggin
Karma assures justice for all.
— David V. Gaggin
When the urge to knock on a door strikes, it's your soul's desire for forward movement. So knock!
— Nicole Leigh West, The Gypsy Trail
The act of seeking is essential to life.
— Mark Fraley
The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act.
— David V. Gaggin
My will is free and connected to my Spirit. When I exercise my free will, I am calm, at peace and serene.
— Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos, Living in Light, Love & Truth: You Can Positively Change Your Life by Living in Light, Love, & Truth-Awareness + Reflection + Learning + Application
We will not suffer If we do not cause others to suffer.
— David V. Gaggin
The All is in all,and all is in The All.
— David V. Gaggin
It helps to think of a self as being like a drop of water that goes into the ocean and becomes one with the ocean.Each drop still exists but is now part of a much larger entity; yet it still does its small part as an element of the ocean.As significant as a single drop may appear,if it were not for all the drops,there would be no ocean.
— David V. Gaggin
What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read.
— Caroline Myss
Many people, through diverse spiritual practices and disciplines have sought enlightenment. Various phenomena, some of them potentially quite captivating, may occur along the path of spiritual development whether it leads to true enlightenment or not. They can be helpful if used wisely, but are neighed the sign of enlightenment nor the requirements for enlightenment. These can includes extrasensory perception (sometimes called ESP), remote viewing, or "miraculous" healing. However, the essence of enlightenment, above and beyond all phenomena, is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.
— Thea Harris, Pour the Oil
Life for a child of God isn't about your successes or failures
—  Christ IS your success.
It is impossible to be creative if you live in the past or the future. To practice the discipline of keeping our consciousness in present time allows our full ability to manifest all physical matter through the power of thought".
— Meryl Yvonne, Closer to Death, Closer to God: True Stories of a Spiritual Awakening
Change Your Energy, Change Your Life
— Jennifer T. Webb, The Last Wave Near Death Experience, A Life Of Miracles
If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply.
— Os Guinness
When you choose a Guru you become a follower. When your Guru chooses you, you become a disciple
— Guruji Naushir
My will is not a place, but a condition. Do not ask Me where and when, but ask Me how.
— Frances J. Roberts, Come Away My Beloved
The problem with the prosperity gospel is that it makes prosperity the Gospel. God's word is flawless, however if your interpretation of the word is wrong, your application will be wrong also.
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Life is a gift. Treat each moment with anticipation and gratitude.
— Christopher Earle
Dr. Enoch Ngo'ma, said, "Your spiritual battle that has nothing to define your capabilities. May the favour of the Lord overshadow you at this time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita