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I shrug, trapped. I donβt want to lose him. In spite of all his demands, his need to control, his scary vices. I have never felt as alive as I do now. Itβs a thrill to be sitting here beside him. Heβs so unpredictable, sexy, smart, and funny. But his
moodsβ¦ oh β and he wants to hurt me. He says heβll think about my reservations, but it still scares me. I close my eyes. What can I say? Deep down I would just like more, more affection, more playful Christian, moreβ¦ love.
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Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.
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Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!
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Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find until after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others do the same.
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Wherever you are, you have to be joyfully alive.
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I thank God every day for this life, and I want there to be more, though thatβs not known. What is known is that Iβm alive today, this minute. And thatβs pretty much what we all have β this day, this moment.
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Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence.
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We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.
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True Christianity does more than feel empathy for those in need. True Christianity meets that need. β James Stuart Bell β
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Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.
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Brian Christian (The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive)
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Your mustard seed is enough.
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To live without hope is to be dead alive!
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Joy keeps the soul alive.
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I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.
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I started to walk the day I was told I was dying of cancer. I believe walking has kept me alive. I live with a constant, pressing awareness of death. Once I start to walk, I am not afraid anymore; all is well.
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Earnest Hemingway once said " write hard and clear about what hurts"
You not waking up next to me each and every day hurts. Not hearing your voice every day hurts...and seeing your eyes light up with burning passion when you spoke of things that inspired you..no longer being a witness to your mind hurts.
Being pushed away by you hurt like hell.
Knowing I was powerless to stop your demons hurt. Knowing you didn't want to stop them hurts worse.
Finding out that you gave up on our story almost kills me to this day.
Knowing your being self destructive and losing your self...that hurts most of all. I knew your smile, danced with your laugh, marveled at your brilliance, came alive with your dreams and danced in your rains. I was lost in all of those things. I'm still lost in the things that hurt so much.
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When you pray in tongues, the Word of God opens up to you. The same Spirit who inspired the written Word will make the scriptures come alive within you.
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I keep a flower
hidden between the pages
of every journal in my house
petalled bookmarks
dried yet alive in a different way
much like my soul
awakened to a new forever-melody
that sounds something like this
joy! joy! joy!
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His intention was, and always has been, intimacy.
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When we are planted in His truth, we sow seeds of clarity and peace.
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive. Oswald Chambers
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What a blessed bliss to be alive?
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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How beautiful to be fully alive in the moment?
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Real Fact about Angles:
Angels are material but ethereal (Latif), more ethereal than the gaseous phase of matter. They are Nurani( Luminous, Spiritual). They are alive. They have reason ( ). Evils peculiar to human beings do not exist of angles. They can take any shape. As gases turn into liquid and solid and take any shape when becoming solid, likewise angles can form beautiful shapes, Angles are not souls that have parted from the bodies of great men. Christians presume that the angles are such spirits. Unlike energy and power, they are not immaterial. Some ancient philosophers supposed so. all of them are called Malaika "Malak" (angel) means 'envoy, messenger' or 'power.' Angles were created before all other living creatures. Therefore, we were commanded to believe in them before believing in the heavenly books, which come before belief in prophets; and in the Holly Quran the names of these tenets of belief are given in thes succession.
Belief in angles has to be as follows: angels are creatures of Allahu Talal (God). They are not His Partners, nor are they His daughters as disbelievers and polytheists suppose.
They Obey His Commands (God's Commands) and never commit sins or disobey the commands. They are neither male or Female. They are do not get married. They do not have children. They have life; that is, they are alive.
When Allah (the God) announced the He was going to create human beings, angels asked, "Ya Rabbi! (Oh God) Are You going to create creatures who will corrupt the world and shed blood?" Such questions, called Dhella, from angles do not changes the fact the they are innocent.
Of all creatures, angels are the most plentiful. No one but Allah (the God) knows their number. There is no empty space in the skies where angels do not worship. Every place in the skies is occupied by angels in Ruku (blowing during Namaz) " a kind of worship or pray" or in the Sujda (Prostrating) " a kind of worship or pray to God". In the skies, on the earth, in grass, on stars, in every living and lifeless creature, in every rain-drop, plant leaf, atom molecule, in every reaction, motion, in everything, angels have duties. They carry out Allahu Tala's (the God) commands everywhere.
They are intermediaries between Allahu tala (The God) and creatures. Some of them are the commanders of other angels. Some of them brought messages to Prophets among human beings. Some angels bring good thoughts, called "Ilham" (inspiration), to the human heart. Some others are unaware of all human beings and creatures and have lost consciousness upon feeling Allah Tala's (The God) beauty.
Each of theses angels stays in a certain place and connot leave its place. Some angels have two wings and some have four or more.
Angels belonging in Paradise stay in Paradise. Their superior is Ridwan. Angels of Hell, Zabanis carry out in Hell what they are commanded. The fire of Hell does not harm them, as the sea is not harmful to fish. There are nineteen leading Zabanis. Their chief Is Malik.
For each human being, there are four angels who record all their good and bad acts. Two of them come at night and the other two come during the day. They are called Kiram Katibin or angels or Hafaza. There is another scholarly report stating that the on oneβs right side is superior to the one on the left and records the good deeds. The one on the left writes down the evil deeds. There are angels who will torment disbelievers and disobedient Muslims in their graves, and angels who will ask questions in graves. The questioning angles are called Munkar and Nakir. Angels who will question Muslims are also Called mubashshir and Bashir.
At the first sound of the βSurβ, all angels except the Hamalat al-Arsh and the four archangelβs will be annihilated. Then the Hamalat al-Arsh and then the four archangels will be annihilated.
At the second sound all angels will be annihilated after all the living creatures, as they were created before all.
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Often we feel that love results from others caring or providing for us, but our deepest emotional ties usually result from our investment in others. When someone says theyβve quit loving another, I often sense that the lack of love results from failing to invest in the life of that individual. When we invest patience and kindness and dispel our anger and judgments in relationships, we then find an emotional bond springs forth. Like most business transactions, love has to be invested in before we will discover a payoff. ---Steven Thompson
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God shows love in many ways, especially through the encouragement of other Christians.
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Respect everyone, and love your Christian brothers and sisters. β1Β Peter 2:17
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God shows love in many ways, especially through the encouragement of other Christians. β Richard Holland β
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If someone says, βI love God,β but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar. β1Β John 4:20
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God is alive and faithful to make something beautiful out of us...God won't abandon us...He's going to replenish it all. He's carrying us in his arms, no matter how bruised or broken we feel. He's planting beautiful seed for our journey - seed that's thriving even among the barren months.
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Remember that the cross was Romeβs way of asserting its authority. Roman authorities declared that if you run afoul of our system, we will torture you to death in the most excruciating (ex cruce, from the cross) way possible and then we will leave your body to waste away and to be devoured by the beasts of the field. The threat of violence is how tyrants up and down the centuries have always asserted their authority. Might makes right. The crucified Jesus appeared to anyone who was witnessing the awful events on Calvary to be one more affirmation of this principle: Caesar always wins in the end. But when Jesus was raised from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit, the first Christians knew that Caesarβs days were numbered. Jesus had taken the worst that the world could throw at him and he returned, alive and triumphant. They knew that the Lord of the world was no longer Caesar, but rather someone whom Caesar had killed but whom God had raised from death. This is why the risen Christ has been the inspiration for resistance movements up and down the centuries. In our own time, we saw how deftly John Paul II wielded the power of the cross in communist Poland. Though he had no nuclear weapons or tanks or mighty armies, John Paul had the power of the Resurrection, and that proved strong enough to bring down one of the most imposing empires in the history of the world. Once again, the faculty lounge interpretation of the Resurrection as a subjective event or a mere symbol is exactly what the tyrants of the world want, for it poses no real threat to them.
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Believers hold that every word in the Bible has not only been inspired but also literally dictated by God. Thus we are to believe every verse and every story as spoken directly by God, and this creates some serious problems, including: Intellectual difficulty with overgeneralizations, conflicts with science, and contradictions. Moral difficulties where God is portrayed at times as partial, vengeful, and deceptive, while in other parts of the Bible universal love is taught; the history of the Hebrews in the Bible shows progress in moral concern rather than a static code; injustice in the Bible including the slaughter of innocent people and minor transgressors. Moral difficulty with concept of endless torture in hell. Problem with occasions of Jesus expressing vindictiveness, discourtesy, narrow-mindedness, and ethnic and religious intolerance. Intellectual difficulties with the human decision-making process for deciding the books of the Bible and questions of the value of other writings not included. Non-uniqueness of Judeo-Christian teachings and practices. Other religions have similar rituals and beliefs, including sacrifice and vicarious atonement through the death of a god, union of a god and a virgin, trinities, the mother Mary (Myrrha, Maya, Maia, and Maritala), a place for good people who die and a hell of fire, an apocalypse, the first man falling from the godβs favor by doing something forbidden or having been tempted by some evil animal, catastrophic floods in which the whole race is exterminated (with details analogous to the story of the flood), a man being swallowed by a fish and then spat out alive, miracles as proof of power and divine messengers. Moral difficulties with intolerance and oppression in todayβs society, which are based on the Bible. Intellectual difficulties with New Testament authorsβ interpretation of events as fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. There are a number of references to βscripturesβ that simply donβt exist.
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Not only did you overcome the greatest of odds to be born alive,
You are also a descendent of a long line of people...
A long line of people who lived, laughed, dreamt, overcame, and loved.
A descendent of a great line of kings, queens, heroes, heroines, warriors, and conquerors.
You are a product of a long tale of love stories that bore fruit.
A result of love stories that had to birth specific people at specific times since the beginning of time...
You, my friend, are the ultimate testimony and proof that love lives.
Love qualified you to be here.
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Remember that you are only alive now.
This is the only moment you have. Embrace it.
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Praise God for the privilege of being alive.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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You can count yourself dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus through the grace of salvation.
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If you stay strong and humble by serving others, worshipping God, and being strong in the Word and watchful of your character, you will remain fully alive in your calling.
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In 1974, Archbishop Fulton Sheen said in a conference, βWe are at the end of Christendom. Not of Christianity, not of the Church, but of Christendom. Now what is meant by Christendom? Christendom is economic, political, social life as inspired by Christian principles. That is ending β weβve seen it die.β But he went on to say, βThese are great and wonderful days in which to be alive. β¦ It is not a gloomy picture β it is a picture of the Church in the midst of increasing opposition from the world. And therefore live your lives in the full consciousness of this hour of testing, and rally close to the heart of Christ.
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