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“I want you to remember that in life you will encounter some very tough times, but you can find your strength in God. If there is something missing in your life, seek the Lord. If you once had Him in your life and now He seems far away, guess who moved? He is still there; just go to Him. He loves you with an everlasting love, and through obedience to Him all commitments will endure.”
― Krickett Carpenter, The Vow: The Kim & Krickitt Carpenter Story

“He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?”
― Dave Eggers

“Forgiveness is more than words ... it is a state of being, and if forgiveness is to be anything more than a superficial offering, then, psychological, emotional, and spiritual ground must be cleared in order that the act of forgiveness may be properly rooted, and, therefore, lasting.”
― Bill Whitehouse, The Sufi Lighthouse: Illuminating Spiritual Abuse

“a real teacher never wishes to make another individual dependent on him or her -- rather, the intention is always to help an individual develop the person's own spiritual sense of taste or dhawk concerning interior events so that one can learn to distinguish truth from falsehood and so that one can learn how to trust one's essential Self (as opposed to one's surface self which is rooted in an unredeemed nafs).”
― Bill Whitehouse

“the word shari’ah literally means ‘a path that leads to water.’ Even the dire warnings that appear in the Qur‘an are essentially nothing but the protective words of a Friend who doesn’t want to see us lose our way and come to grief.”
― Charles Upton, The Virtues of the Prophet: A Young Muslim's Guide to the Greater Jihad, the War Against the Passions

“If we know for certain that God sees all we do and all we are, we will not be tempted ask others to validate us by displaying our virtues, nor will we tempt others to judge us by displaying our sins. Only God can validate us; only God can judge.”
― Charles Upton

“If we have forgotten our total dependency upon God, then there is nothing left for us but to try to depend upon other people’s attention to us, because without such attention we don’t even feel like human beings. Instead of paying attention to God, we become beggars for the attention of others, constantly trying to make them pity us or look up to us. But this is not true human relatedness, only mutual idolatry.”
― Charles Upton

“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”
― Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace

“The look in the eyes is something that can be disguised, unless you have seen the same journey”
― Stacey Danson

“God hasn't forgotten you, God will never forget you. He says He will never leave you comfortless, and He won't. You can't use Him up or wear Him out. Hang on to him. He wont forget you. So please don't forget Him.”
― Krickett Carpenter, The Vow: The Kim & Krickitt Carpenter Story

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Society is primarily concerned with appearances… and this is why it tends to be highly deluded. Deeper understanding will often give you a very different perspective than that held by the majority.”
― Benjamin Langley, Mystic Compassion: An Easy Energy Healing Method for Health and Happiness

“If you do choose to take action to help others, make sure you do it with no expectation of positive response from them. Do it because the act feels right. This will keep you from making more of a mess of the situation and your emotions.”
― Benjamin Langley, Mystic Compassion: An Easy Energy Healing Method for Health and Happiness

“Find your true path. It’s so easy to become someone we don’t want to be, without even realizing it’s happening. We are created by the choices we make every day. And if we take action in order to please some authority figure, we’ll suddenly wake up down the road and say, “This isn’t me. I never wanted to be this person.”
― Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield, Handbook for the Soul

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes

“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
― Warsan Shire

“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
― Maya Angelou

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.”
― Robert Ferrigno, Prayers for the Assassin

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves