The irony.

The irony is:

The closer people are to God,

The more the will love one another.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

—Elisabeth Elliot (via heartbeatofatwentysomething)

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And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it. I think apart from the idea that I am a sinner and God forgives me, this is the greatest lesson I have ever learned. When you get it, it changes you. My friend Julie from Seattle told me that the main prayer she prays for her husband is that he will be able to receive love. And this is the prayer I pray for all my friends because it is the key to happiness. God’s love will never change us if we don’t accept it.

Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller (via hidingwithalltheghosts)

Truth.

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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

—Frances Hodgson Burnett  (via eternalunfolding)

(Source: hellanne, via lifeofpraise)