Do not allow your past to interfere with your future, but rather leave your missteps to God's divine mercy, your future to His holy providence, & the eternal present to His infinite love.
You could be down and out 10 times over for many years and still, if you retain even the smallest inkling of hope, it's immensely likely that you'll prevail. Just as a mustard seed of faith can move mountains, merely the belief that things can get better, typically results in miracles.
Becoming equally content with the best and the worst possible outcomes actualizing, frees you to make the most of what actually is & will be
We often pray 'Thy will be done' without meaning it slightly. But you trust in the Lord completely, surrender is effortless, for you know you're in the palm of His hands
The one truth every man must know to survive in this world is that he will, no matter what, no matter how many obstacles pile up in his way, he must know in his bones that he will find a way through them all. this is the only thing that matters, the only question worth asking, not what could happen or who might stand in your path, but whether or not you will, in the end. because if you start with that knowledge, if you hold it tight and let that truth seep into your marrow, then theres not a goddamn thing in this world that can stop you. not fate, not the whole weight of history coming down on your shoulders. youll shrug it off. walk through the deepest rivers of shit imaginable and come out on the other side. and heaven and earth will move for the man who refuses to flinch.
The longer you postpone a difficult conversation, the longer you wrestle with it in your head.
The same applies to the work you know you should do. Laziness doesn’t negate responsibility; it only adds to the burden of it.
At the root of procrastination and avoidance lies a form of cowardice capable of plaguing every man
Just as a mustard seed of faith can move mountains, a firm resolve and a few uncomfortable minutes can save you weeks, months, and years of discomfort, regret, and friction
The Enemy works within the latency between conviction and action, forever trying to pull you from what’s fruitful. Reduce the delay. Deny the devil. And cooperate with grace. God’s will may just surprise you
Kagame Imprisoned Tom Byabagamba’s Corpse Until His Burial
Kagame did not want the world to see that Tom had been reduced to a skeleton. Whether he died from 12-year prison torture or assassination remains a state secret.
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Amigos, se los digo con inmenso cariño: disfruten la vida. No se amarguen. Sean amables, sonrían, abracen a su gente querida. Expresen el amor y la amistad que sienten. No pierdan tiempo en peleas que no valen la pena. La vida no es mañana ni después. La vida es este momento. Justo ahora.
If you want to be the type of man who cannot be stopped, you have to build your life around ideas that you created from nothing. its the only way, because when you are living in someone elses reality you are always at their mercy. but when you are the source of the thoughts that drive you, nobody can turn you against yourself. you have a confidence that comes from knowing you can burn down your whole existence and build it back up again, because you did it once already, from nothing, with no blueprint. so why would you ever fear the judgment of another mortal, or submit to another mans vision, when you have proved you can build worlds inside your own mind
True wealth is total independence: you answer to nobody & no opinion or politics can dictate your future
Even the richest celebrities’ careers live & die by their fanbase & whoever writes their cheques
If income costs you peace or freedom, you’re rich — not wealthy.
LETTER TO BROTHER TOM BYABAGAMBA — NOW THAT YOU ARE FINALLY FREE, I SLEPT PEACEFULLY
You are truly free at last, and in that knowledge, I have found a profound sense of peace and liberation as well.
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I've been down and out more nights than I can count, but there hasn't been one morning in which the Lord did not rejuvenate my spirits and rekindle that flame of Hope deep within my heart
C.S. Lewis truly cooked with The Great Divorce
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“Son,” he said, “ye cannot in your present state understand eternity... That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.
And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.
Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man's past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness.
And that is why...the Blessed will say "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven, : and the Lost, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truly.
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