grey monsters & dust bunnies

20. nyc.
the past is practice.


You're altogether lovely,
Altogether worthy,
Altogether wonderful to me


"Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts."
Tim Keller, The Reason for God
#tim keller #reason #god #faith #sin #gospel #pride #fear #change #heart

"Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He’s the one who will keep you on track."
Proverbs 3:5-6
#bible #god #verse #proverb #trust #heart #listen #track #life

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."
Ezekiel 36:26
#bible #ezekiel #verse #heart #spirit #renew #jesus

God is not impressed with religiosity.

He does not care about how you say it. He is not impressed by flowery statements. Just come to him with sincerity and heart.

Help.

God can handle your complaints, people can’t.

#god #religion #faith #heart

"Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days – when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when your out of options, when the pain is great – and you turn to God alone."
Rick Warren
#god #rick warren #worship #pain #heart #broken

"Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He’s the one who will keep you on track."
Proverbs 3:5-6
#proverbs #god #heart #listen #track #bible #fait

"One of the best ways to keep Jesus Christ at the center of a relationship is to keep an open hand at all times. Whenever we start to cling too tightly to a friendship, relationship, or even the desire for a relationship, we must take a step back, examine our heart and entrust the pen back to the Author of romance."
Leslie Ludy

(Source: tolovetheloveless, via carolsohn)

#jesus #god #relationship #heart #love #christ

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tendrilbones:

  You became my habit, you left the door wide open again. Lost with a meadowlark, you came across my heart again. You asked me what was wrong though I could not feel it. Caught between two desks you crossed the line for the fourth time and I thought you would hold my hand. Your brown eyes could have been everything but have now succumb to amoral exhortations I speak within my mind, contradicting myself as always. Looking at your lips arises the presence of need, the wanting to kiss you in private. Waking to a cold spoon on my tongue, negligence and preoccupation - not your embrace. The knowing I will see you for precisely eighty-three minutes once a day is all I have to hold, soil and grow. Alas, a sunflower cannot prosper without the hospice of a golden sky light.

#habit #heart #kiss #cold

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."
Jean de La Fontaine 
#Jean de La Fontaine #quote #broken #sad #wings #time #heart

"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
Will Smith
#will smith #disrespect #life #hate #heart


"A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."
Max Lucado

(Source: ellenmkim)

#god #heart #love

"The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart."
Psalm 51:17
#god #faith #sacrifice #heart #bible

"a good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold."
proverbs 22:1
#kind #bible #heart