Jordan

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❤ ☮✞✡ "You guys are all into that born again thing, which is great. We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the kingdom of God, I can tell you that you just have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy too…[And he paused in the awkward silence.] But I guess that’s why God invented highlighters, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest. "
~ Rich Mullins ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡"And this is what I have come to think: That if I want to identify fully with Jesus Christ, whom I claim to be my Savior and Lord the best way that I can do that is to identify with the poor. This I know will go against the teachings of all the popular evangelical preachers. But they’re just wrong. They’re not bad, they’re just wrong. Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken. "
~ Rich Mullins ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell.
~ Christopher Moore, "Lamb" ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ All books reveal perfection, by what they are or what they are not.
~ Christopher Moore, "Lamb" ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the Divine.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ People don't need your approval. They need your kindness. Who are you to "approve" of anyone else? Worry about yourself and treat others with kindness.
~ The Christian Left ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ What a person believes about God is a matter between that person, God, and no one else. “Do unto others as they would do unto you?” Great! How? By loving them. And how to do that when you claim that you know God better than we do? By trusting the God, whom you love so much, to work out God’s relationship with everyone else, just as God did with you.
~ Christians Tired of Being Misrepresented member, Jack Bennett ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ "One shouldn't act unkindly to others."
~ The Hunchback of Nowhere, "Courage the Cowardly Dog ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ "From the stars of the sky to the flowers of the Earth. It's the mystery of life, it is."
~ Muriel, "Courage the Cowardly Dog" ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ "When I am good, I'm very good. When I am bad, I'm better."
~ Mae West ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ Books add such depth to your life."
~Linda Cullity, my 8th grade homeroom teacher ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ "Don't compare yourself to other Christians. Compare yourself to Christ. That's who you are following."
~ Christians Tired of Being Misrepresented ❤ ☮✞✡

❤ ☮✞✡ "We are all f**k ups in our own special ways."
~ "Weird Sisters" by Eleanor Brown✡✞ ☮

❤ ☮ ✞✡"Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!!"✡✞ ☮ ❤

~ Jacob Marley, "A Christmas Carol"

❤ ☮ ✞✡ "Give me a man that has read thousands of books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man that has read 3 books and you give me a most dangerous companion indeed."✡✞ ☮ ❤

~ Anne Rice, "Mayfair Witches"

❤☮✞✡ "What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something, you all go crazy. If miracles had chemical equations, then everybody would believe."✡ ✞ ☮ ❤

~Gabe "The Gift" by Cecelia Ahern


❤☮✞✡ "There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit,' who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."

~ The Ghost of Christmas Present, "A Christmas Carol" ❤☮✞✡☯


❤☮✞✡☯ "So, if you don't like the way I look, I just don't give a damn!"
~Mrs. Turnbull, "Hairspray"

❤☮✞✡☯ As of now, I am in a much better place than I was a few years ago when I first began my journey here. Still a nurse, which is my calling, and I am now identifying as a Christian Universalist. I stay busy with work and with school as I pursue my degrees to better help people, and I still have thoughts on faith, love, sexuality, hope, and various other topics that I hope helps people. I am a sexual abuse and incest survivor and the mother of one young lady who I gave up for adoption. I was able to meet her and that was a blessing as well.

I hope these writings help people that need it. ❤☮✞✡☯