"God doesn’t love you when you do something special,
You are made special because he loves you.
God doesn’t love you when you do good,
God’s love is what calls forth goodness in you.
God doesn’t love you for knowing the Bible,
God wants to write His gospel of love on the tablet of your heart."
-Unka Glen (unkaglen.tumblr.com)
"Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of material success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.
So it is with marriage. It is a momentary gift. It may last a lifetime, or it may be snatched away on the honeymoon. Either way, it is short. It may have many bright days, or it may be covered with clouds. If we make secondary things primary, we will be embittered at the sorrows we must face. But if we set our face to make of marriage mainly what God designed it to be, no sorrows and no calamities can stand in our way. Every one of them will be, not an obstacle to success, but a way to succeed. The beauty of the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his church shines brightest when nothing but Christ can sustain it."
-John Piper, This Momentary Marriage (via set-apartgirl)
"My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth."
-John Piper (via rachelmazejka)(Source: lyndseybrummell)
"Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord ,
I will be joyful in God my Savior."
-Habakkuk 3:17-18 NIV
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."
-Matthew 5:4 (via duckees)(Source: dillondean)
"Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint."
-Isaiah 40:28-31 (via duckees)(Source: holymoleyitsfoley)
Give Me Jesus - Jeremy Camp
You can have all this world, just give me Jesus.
