It should make us weep to know that the majority of ‘Christians’ in the world aren’t actually Christians
Narrow is the gate.
"Oh, I’m letting go of my yesterday, grab a hold, free in Your grace I live. There’s no more guilt! Hello new mercies! Hello every morning! And every day I live, is another day I know that I’ve been forgiven"
"The goal (in relationships/marriage) is to find your best friend who you get to have a slumber party with for the rest of your life. It is not to find the best looking person and we’re just going to make out all the time and we’re all going to look like we’re 20 forever. The way you look now won’t always be there., but the heart that beats underneath, the personality that fits so well with yours, the person who knows how to celebrate you, that’s what you want."
"A man becomes a saint not by conviction that he is better than sinners but by the realization that he is one of them."
Thomas Merton (via collegetao)
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
Thomas Merton
"In present-day America, such self-denial is apt to require heroism. In practice it may mean giving up many or most of the luxuries which I have come to regard as necessities, at least until I have acquired sufficient self-control to use these things without being enslaved by them"
Thomas Merton
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Your relationship with God is not based on your behavior. And that is good news because, trust me, you don’t want it to be.
"In the way of righteousness
there is life;
along that path is immortality"
Proverbs 12:28
