“Your mind, body, and spirit are one in relationship, just like the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Your mind, body, and spirit work in relation to one another. If one part is unfit, they all struggle. It's a fact.”
Source: Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God
“Grants footsteps are the same as they always were, they are soft and slow but also confident, like him, he knows I'll follow.”
Source: If You Change Your Mind
“In order to “protect” ourselves by keeping our lives small and shutting out intimacies, we could actually be hurting ourselves, missing out on a transformative experience of the heart, and sabotaging our small but crucial contribution to making peace.”
Source: Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
“But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long, close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“Love is not about finding someone,
Love is about finding yourself in someone.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“As sscary as this is for you," Mom says evenly, "there's only one wrong move here."
I tongue my cracked tooth. "What's that?"
"Doing nothing.”
Source: 10 Signs You Need to Grovel
“To leave someone because their choices demand that we do so is not to give up on them. For even though I may never see them again, dear God you see them every minute of every day. And in the seeing, I ask that You see what I could not, and be what I cannot.”
“One of the joys of living together is things become cheaper!”
“I will not have a relationship with a lady that does not own her own home.”
“There's a bump in your nose now."
He glared at me. "There is not."
"Your mouth is lopsided."
He opened his mouth to argue, but then he just let out a weary groan. "What is the point? I am hideous. I can't wait to change myself back again."
"Don't. I prefer you like this."
He looked surprised, then he began to smile. "Do you?"
"Yes," I said. "You blend into the background. I could almost forget about you entirely. It's refreshing."
Naturally, he found a way to twist this into a compliment. "And am I ordinarily a distraction to you, Em?”
Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries