When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody notices, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
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John Lennon (via psych-quotes)
A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that He finds her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in Him, she is enough.
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Stasi Eldredge, Captivating (via whitewavesblog)
I worry that saying ‘Be like Jesus! He’s cool cuz He hung out with sinners!’ actually ostracizes ‘sinners’. He never labeled them as such. It was disapproving religious folk who said Jesus was a friend of sinners. They were insulting Jesus by lumping him with ‘dirty people’. If we feel good about ourselves because we hang out with ‘sinners’, we’re elevating ourselves in a Pharisaical hierarchy. Jesus didn’t tell us to love sinners. He told us to love our neighbors [and our enemies]. So no, don’t ‘be like Jesus who hung out with prostitutes and drunkards’. Be like Jesus who saw people as names and faces and stories, not sins. When religious people point at you and say ‘Don’t you know this woman has a past?’, Jesus smiles and says ‘I know she has a future.’
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Micah J. Murray (via matthewclan)
We have not the slightest notion of the tremendous thing He means to make of us.
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CS Lewis (via jesusiwillfollowyou)
If God can forgive, redeem and transform me, I must believe that God can work such wonders with anyone. Love of enemies is seeing one’s oppressors through the prism of the reign of God -not only as they are now but also as they can become: transformed by the power of God.
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Walter Wink (via hislivingpoetry)