People can relate to someone who isn’t perfect.
Why would anybody connect with someone who has everything going for them? It’s the person who has faults that people want to connect with.
Gabriel Iglesias (born 1976) is an American comedian and actor.
Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do. (lyrics from “Your Smiling Face”)
Shower the people you love with love. (lyrics from “Shower The People”)
James Taylor (born 1948) is an American singer-songwriter. His talents have been well-recognized with six Grammy awards as well as being selected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
From Romans 5:3-4: “And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.”
Relationship challenges
Sin attempts to break apart
Holy Spirit never rests
Love’s flame nurtures pair of hearts
Faithful steps follow Jesus
Light sharing grace every day
Together, praying as one
Love fills tomorrow’s gateway
Father extends helping hand
Darkness replaced with sunrise
Endurance sustains journey
Love eclipses gloomy skies
Marriage healing and growing
Faith’s commitment now restored
Mercy’s lasting promises
Love’s hymn, vows renewing chords
From Romans 5:5: “And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.”
How do you spell love? When we reach the point where the happiness, security, and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E.
From 1 John 4:7-12: “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.”
Josh McDowell (born 1939) is an American Christian evangelist and co-author of over 150 books.
You know someone is truly special when the most beautiful thing they have one is a kind soul.
If you have no one, you are poor; if you have an acquaintance, you are fortunate; if you have a friend, you are privileged; if you have a lover, you are rich; if you have a soulmate, you are wealthy.
Matshona Dhliwayo is a Canadian-based author and philosopher. Born in Zimbabwe, he shares his unique look at life throughout much of his writing.
Maybe the universe fights for certain souls to find one another.
Because at the end of the day, the right people fight for you. The right people show up. The right people care.
Bianca Sparacino is a Canadian writer who targets her writing to honestly reflect upon the contrasts of life.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides was one the leading ancient tragedians from classical Greek culture in Athens.
God never gives us anything accidental. Nothing is easier than getting into a right relationship with God except when it is not God whom you want but only what He gives.
From Jeremiah 45:5: “And you, do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them, for I am going to bring disaster upon all flesh, says the Lord, but I will give you your life as a prize of war in every place to which you may go.”
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher. Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons. Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST. I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us.
Gary Snyder (born 1930) is an American poet, lecturer, and environmental activist. He has often been recognized as the “poet laureate of Deep Ecology.” He has also received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist. Her body of published work is found in autobiographies, essays, poems, and numerous credits in plays, movies, and television shows.
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