Love doesn’t use a fist.
Love never calls you fat or lazy or ugly.
Love doesn’t laugh at you in front of friends.
It is not in Love’s interest for your self-esteem to be low.
Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.
Love does not make you beg.
Love does not make you deposit your paycheck into its bank account.
Love certainly never, never brings the children into it.
Love does not ask or even want you to change. But if you change, Love is as excited about this change as you are, if not more so. And if you go back to the way you were before you changed, Love will go back with you.
Love does not maintain a list of your flaws and weaknesses.
Love believes in you.
Love is patient; Love does not make a point of showing you how patient it is.
It is critical to understand the distinction.

~   Augusten Burroughs, “How to Identify Love by Knowing What It’s Not” from This Is How
(also see 1 Corinthians 13)
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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.

~   

Lee Younger on episode 17 of Say That

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It was in failing God that I got to see the redemptive power of grace. I’m not saying that it was good that I failed Him but it was in my weakness and in my mistakes that I truly got to see a.) that God is good and b.) that I really can’t do anything without HIm. (Phil 4:13)

~   Isa Garcia (via followandreblog)
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God must be a pretty big fan of ‘today’, because you keep waking up to it. You have made known your request for a hundred different yesterdays, but the sun keeps rising on this thing that has never been known. Yesterday is dead and over. Wrapped in grace. Those days are grace. You are still alive, and today is the most interesting day. Today is the best place to live.

~   

Jamie Tworkowski

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It is doubtful whether God can use a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

~   A.W. Tozer (via denisecua)
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Don’t be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away

~   Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
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No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

~   J.R.R. Tolkien (via a-ladder-to-the-stars)
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